杪

Translingual

Han character

杪 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 木火竹 (DFH), four-corner 4992₀, composition ⿰木少)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 513, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14490
• Dae Jaweon: page 898, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1168, character 9
• Unihan data for U+676A

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		杪

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (小) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
觘	*sm̥ʰreːw, *sm̥ʰreːws
抄	*sm̥ʰreːw, *sm̥ʰreːws
鈔	*sm̥ʰreːw, *sm̥ʰreːws
訬	*sm̥ʰreːw, *mewʔ
炒	*sʰroːʔ
吵	*sm̥ʰreːwʔ, *mewʔ
耖	*sm̥ʰreːws
仯	*sm̥ʰreːws
眇	*mewʔ
渺	*mewʔ
杪	*mewʔ
秒	*mewʔ
篎	*mewʔ, *mews
妙	*mews
玅	*mews
釥	*sm̥ʰewʔ
小	*smewʔ
少	*hmjewʔ, *hmjews
麨	*m̥ʰjewʔ
尠	*senʔ, *smos

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): miǎo (miao³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄠˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): miu⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: miǎo
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄠˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: miǎo
    • Wade–Giles: miao³
    • Yale: myǎu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: meau
    • Palladius: мяо (mjao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: miu⁵
    • Yale: míuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: miu⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: miu⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /miːu̯¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: mjiewX

Rime
Character	杪
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	宵 (91)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	亡沼切
Baxter	mjiewX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/miᴇuX/
Pan Wuyun	/miɛuX/
Shao Rongfen	/mjæuX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/miawX/
Li Rong	/miɛuX/
Wang Li	/mĭɛuX/
Bernard Karlgren	/mi̯ɛuX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	miǎo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	miu5

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[m]ewʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*mewʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	杪
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	miǎo
Middle Chinese	‹ mjiewX ›
Old Chinese	/*[m]ewʔ/
English	the utmost end
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	杪
Reading #	1/1
No.	13697
Phonetic component	小
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	眇
Old Chinese	/*mewʔ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 杪

1. tip of twig, top of tree
2. twig

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Japanese

Kanji

杪

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: みょう (myō)^{←めう (meu, historical)}
• Kan-on: びょう (byō)^{←べう (beu, historical)}
• Kun: こずえ (kozue, 杪)

Noun

杪(こずえ) • (kozue) 

1. treetop

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Korean

Hanja

杪 (eum 초 (cho))

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Vietnamese

Han character

杪: Hán Nôm readings: diễu, miểu

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References

• Nom Foundation