苗

苗 U+82D7, 苗 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-82D7 ← 苖 [U+82D6] CJK Unified Ideographs 苘 → [U+82D8]

Translingual

Han character

苗 (radical 140, 艸+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 廿田 (TW), four-corner 4460₀, composition ⿱艹田)

Derived characters

• 㑤, 喵, 媌, 庿, 描, 渵, 瞄, 緢, 貓 (猫), 錨 (锚), 鶓, (鹋), 𠪄, 𣈴, 𣬍, 𤋙

References

• KangXi: page 1022, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30781
• Dae Jaweon: page 1481, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3191, character 2
• Unihan data for U+82D7

---

Chinese

trad.		苗
simp. #		苗

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 苗
Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions	Qin slip script	Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
貓	*mreːw, *mrew
描	*mreːw, *mrew
媌	*mreːw, *mreːwʔ
緢	*mreːwʔ, *mreːws, *mrew
苗	*mrew
猫	*mrew
庿	*mrews

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 艹 (“grass”) + 田 (“field”).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): miáo (miao²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄠˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): miu⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): mèu
• Jin (Wiktionary): miau¹
• Min Dong (BUC): mièu
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): biâu

  (Teochew, Peng'im): miou⁵ / miao⁵ / bhiê⁵ / bhio⁵

• Wu (Wiktionary): miau (T3)

---

• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: miáo
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄠˊ
    • Wade–Giles: miao2
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: miau
    • Tongyong Pinyin: miáo
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mjɑʊ̯³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Pinyin: miáor
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄠˊㄦ
    • Wade–Giles: miaorh2
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: miaul
    • Tongyong Pinyin: miáor
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mjaʊ̯ɻʷ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: miu⁴
    • Yale: mìuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: miu⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: miu⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /miːu̯²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: mèu
    • Hakka Romanization System: meuˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: meu²
    • Sinological IPA: /meu̯¹¹/
• Jin
  • (Taiyuan)⁺
    • Wiktionary: miau¹
    • Sinological IPA (old-style): /miau¹¹/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: mièu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mieu⁵³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: biâu
    • Tâi-lô: biâu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: biaau
    • IPA (Xiamen): /biau²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /biau²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /biau¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /biau²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /biau²³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: miou⁵ / miao⁵ / bhiê⁵ / bhio⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: miôu / miâu / biê / biô
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /miou⁵⁵/, /miau⁵⁵/, /bie⁵⁵/, /bio⁵⁵/

Note:

• miou5, bhiê5 - Chaozhou;
• miao5, bhio5 - Shantou, Jieyang, Chaoyang.

Wu

• (Shanghainese)
  • Wiktionary: miau (T3)
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /miɔ²³/

---

• Middle Chinese: /mˠiᴇu/

Rime
Character	苗
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	宵 (92)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	Chongniu III
Fanqie	武瀌切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mˠiᴇu/
Pan Wuyun	/mᵚiɛu/
Shao Rongfen	/miæu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/miaw/
Li Rong	/mjɛu/
Wang Li	/mĭɛu/
Bernard Karlgren	/mi̯ɛu/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	miáo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	miu4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*m(r)aw/

  (Zhengzhang): /*mrew/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	苗
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	miáo
Middle Chinese	‹ mjew ›
Old Chinese	/*m(r)aw/
English	sprout (n.)
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	苗
Reading #	1/1
No.	9108
Phonetic component	苗
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	苗
Old Chinese	/*mrew/

Definitions

苗

1. seedling; shoot; sprout
2. shoot-like object
3. descendant (of a family); offspring
4. symptom (of a trend)
5. young (of an animal)
6. Short for 疫苗 (yìmiáo, “vaccine”).
7. the Miao peoples (including Hmong, Hmu, A-Hmao, Qo Xiong, etc.)
8. A surname​.

Compounds

Derived terms from 苗

• 三苗
• 互別苗頭／互别苗头
• 出苗 (chūmiáo)
• 別苗頭／别苗头 (biémiáotóu)
• 卡介苗 (kǎjièmiáo)
• 口服疫苗
• 夏苗
• 嫩苗
• 定苗
• 幼苗 (yòumiáo)
• 心苗
• 恩施土家族苗族自治州 (Ēnshī Tǔjiāzú Miáozú Zìzhìzhōu)
• 拔苗助長／拔苗助长 (bámiáozhùzhǎng)
• 揠苗助長／揠苗助长 (yàmiáozhùzhǎng)
• 放青苗 (fàngqīngmiáo)
• 旱苗 (hànmiáo)
• 旱苗得雨
• 有苗頭／有苗头
• 根苗 (gēnmiáo)
• 植苗
• 樹苗／树苗 (shùmiáo)
• 沙克疫苗
• 沙賓疫苗／沙宾疫苗
• 油苗
• 活性疫苗

• 混合疫苗
• 火苗 (huǒmiáo)
• 煙苗／烟苗
• 熟苗
• 燈苗／灯苗
• 牛痘苗
• 牻牛兒苗／牻牛儿苗
• 生苗
• 疫苗 (yìmiáo)
• 痘苗 (dòumiáo)
• 白喉疫苗
• 礦苗／矿苗
• 禾苗 (hémiáo)
• 秧苗 (yāngmiáo)
• 稻苗 (dàomiáo)
• 育苗 (yùmiáo)
• 花苗 (huāmiáo)
• 苗人
• 苗信
• 苗兒／苗儿
• 苗圃 (miáopǔ)
• 苗子 (miáozi)
• 苗床 (miáochuáng)
• 苗文
• 苗族 (Miáozú)

• 苗木 (miáomù)
• 苗栗 (Miáolì)
• 苗栗市
• 苗栗縣／苗栗县
• 苗條／苗条 (miáotiáo)
• 苗民
• 苗瑤語族／苗瑶语族
• 苗田
• 苗疆 (Miáojiāng)
• 苗而不秀
• 苗裔 (miáoyì)
• 苗語／苗语 (miáoyǔ)
• 苗頭／苗头 (miáotou)
• 蒜苗 (suànmiáo)
• 豆苗 (dòumiáo)
• 買青苗／买青苗
• 銀苗／银苗
• 露苗 (lòumiáo)
• 青苗 (qīngmiáo)
• 青苗法
• 魚苗／鱼苗 (yúmiáo)
• 麥苗／麦苗 (màimiáo)
• 黍苗
• 黎苗

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 苗 – see 鱙. (This character, 苗, is a variant form of 鱙.)

References

• “苗”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

---

Japanese

Kanji

苗

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. Seedling; young plant

Readings

• Go-on: みょう (myō)^{←めう (meu, historical)}
• Kan-on: びょう (byō, Jōyō)^{←べう (beu, historical)}
• Kun: なえ (nae, 苗, Jōyō); なわ (nawa, 苗, Jōyō ^†); かり (kari)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
苗
なえ Grade: S
kun’yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 苗 – see the following entry.

【なえ】 [noun] seedling; young plant

(This term, 苗, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

---

Korean

Hanja

苗 • (myo) (hangeul 묘, revised myo, McCune–Reischauer myo, Yale myo)

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

---

Vietnamese

Han character

苗: Hán Nôm readings: meo, miêu

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.