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miǎo

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miǎo Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
miǎo | miao3
English translation
second (of time)
unit of angle or arc equivalent to one sixtieth of a degree
a second; a corn kernel; measure word for time

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About miǎo

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Number of strokes

9

Traditional form

miǎo

Contains the radical

Part of speech

Numeral / 数词 shù cí Shù cí

Learning hint

grain

Etymology of miǎo

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

禾少

Semantic compound

Phonetic compound

shǎo

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and shǎo represents the sound.

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Example sentences using miǎo

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60 miǎo wéi 1 fēn .

Sixty seconds make a minute.

他们 tā men 一生 yī shēng 刻苦 kèkǔ 工作 gōngzuò , 浪费 làngfèi 一分一秒.

They worked hard all their lives, wasting not a single moment.

zhè zài 比赛 bǐsài Zhōng páo le 2 fēn 30 miǎo .

The race horse was clocked at two minutes thirty seconds.

向东 xiàng dōng shǐ de 汽车 qì chē zài 5 miǎo zǒu le 40距离 jùlí .

An eastbound car travels a distance of 40 m in 5 s.

zhè tiáo 平均 píngjūn 流量 liú liàng wéi měi miǎo 二百立方米 lì fāng mǐ .

The average flow of the river is 200 cubic metres per second.

Words with miǎo

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
miǎo second (unit of time) miǎo
秒钟 miǎo zhōng (time) second秒鐘
争分夺秒 zhēng fēn duó miǎo making every second count爭分奪秒
秒表 miǎo biǎo stopwatch秒表 miǎo biǎo
分秒必争 fēn miǎo bì zhēng every moment counts分秒必爭
毫秒 háo miǎo millisecond, ms毫秒 háo miǎo
秒针 miǎo zhēn second hand (of a clock)秒針

miǎo Decomposition & Compounds

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miǎo Decomposition

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