苗

Translingual

Han character

苗 (Kangxi 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 Dictionary: 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

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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／会意) : 艹 (“grass”) + 田 (“field”).

Etymology 1

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 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 Hmong/Miao people

Etymology 2

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

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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)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 苗 (meo, miêu)

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