秒

Translingual

Han character

秒 (Kangxi radical 115, 禾+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 竹木火竹 (HDFH), four-corner 2992₀, composition ⿰禾少)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 850, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24952
• Dae Jaweon: page 1274, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2593, character 12
• Unihan data for U+79D2

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Chinese

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *mewʔ) : semantic 禾 (“cereal; grain”) + phonetic 少 (OC *hmjewʔ, *hmjews).

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.		秒

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 秒

1. ^† awn; arista
2. ^† tiny; minute; insignificant
3. ^† tip; end; extremity
4. Classifier for time: second

   一天有86400秒。  ―  Yī tiān yǒu 86400 miǎo.  ―  There are 86,400 seconds in one day.

5. Classifier for measuring an angle or latitude/longitude: second
6. (neologism, Internet slang, by extension) in seconds; immediately; instantly; at once

Synonyms

• 秒鐘／秒钟 (miǎozhōng)

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 秒 – see 藐 (“small; young; to look down on; to think little of; etc.”). (This character is the second-round simplified form of 藐).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

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Japanese

Kanji

秒

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

1. second

Readings

• Go-on: みょう (myō)
• Kan-on: びょう (byō, Jōyō)
• Kun: のぎ (nogi, 秒)

Compounds

• 秒(びょう)速(そく) (byōsoku)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
秒
びょう Grade: 3
on'yomi

Pronunciation

• Homophones: 眇, 廟, 鋲, 渺

Noun

秒(びょう) • (byō) ^{←べう (beu)?}

1. second (one-sixtieth of a minute; SI unit of time)
2. second (unit of angular measure)

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Korean

Hanja

秒 • (cho, myo) (hangeul 초, 묘, McCune–Reischauer ch'o, myo, Yale cho, myo)

Noun

秒 • (cho) (hangeul 초)

1. hanja form^? of 초 (“second (unit of time, as a component)”)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 秒 (miểu, sao)

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