尛

See also: 小

尛 U+5C1B, 尛 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5C1B ← 尚 [U+5C1A] CJK Unified Ideographs 尜 → [U+5C1C]

Translingual

Han character

尛 (Kangxi radical 42, 小+6, 9 strokes, Cangjie input 火火火 (FFF) or 難火火火 (XFFF), four-corner 9099₀, composition ⿱⿻丨八⿰小小(G) or ⿱小⿰小小(T))

Derived characters

• 𫈳

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 297, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7498
• Dae Jaweon: page 592, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 564, character 8
• Unihan data for U+5C1B

Chinese

Etymology 1

Glyph origin

Triplication of 小 (“small”), as 麼 / 么 means "tiny".

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 尛 – see 麼. (This character is an ancient form of 麼).

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.		尛

Glyph origin

Triplication of 小 (“small”). In modern Taiwanese Mandarin slang, it functions as a graphical pun on the phrase 三小 (sānxiǎo, literally “three smalls”), which is a Mandarin phonetic approximation of Hokkien 啥潲 (sáⁿ-siâu, “what the hell”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sānxiǎo

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄢ ㄒㄧㄠˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: sānxiǎo
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄢ ㄒㄧㄠˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sansiǎo
    • Wade–Giles: san¹-hsiao³
    • Yale: sān-syǎu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sansheau
    • Palladius: саньсяо (sanʹsjao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sän⁵⁵ ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

Definitions

尛

1. (Taiwan, Internet slang) alternative form of 三小 (sānxiǎo, “what the hell”)