秒 miǎo

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Number of strokes

Traditional form

秒 miǎo

Contains the radical

禾 hé

Part of speech

Numeral / 数词 shù cí Shù cí

Learning hint

grain

Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

⿰禾少

Semantic compound

禾 hé

Phonetic compound

少 shǎo

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. 禾 hé represents the meaning and 少 shǎo represents the sound.

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“Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”

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60秒 miǎo 为 wéi 1分 fēn .

Sixty seconds make a minute.

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

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

这 zhè 匹 pī 马 Mǎ 在 zài 比赛 bǐsài 中 Zhōng 跑 páo 了 le 2分 fēn 30秒 miǎo .

The race horse was clocked at two minutes thirty seconds.

一 yī 部 bù 向东 xiàng dōng 驶 shǐ 的 de 汽车 qì chē 在 zài 5秒 miǎo 里 lǐ 走 zǒu 了 le 40米 Mǐ 距离 jùlí .

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

这 zhè 条 tiáo 河 hé 平均 píngjūn 流量 liú liàng 为 wéi 每 měi 秒 miǎo 二百立方米 lì fāng mǐ .

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

Explore 7 words and sayings that include the Chinese character 秒 miǎo in their composition.

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Simplified	Meaning	Traditional
秒 miǎo	second (unit of time)	秒 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