妙

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See also: 玅
妙 U+5999, 妙
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5999
← 妘
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 妚 →

Translingual

Stroke order
7 strokes

Han character

妙 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 女火竹 (VFH), four-corner 49420, composition ⿰女少)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 256, character 24
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6090
  • Dae Jaweon: page 521, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1030, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+5999

Chinese

trad. 妙
simp. # 妙
alternative forms 玅
眇

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 *mews) : semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 少 (OC *hmjewʔ, *hmjews)

Pronunciation 1

Note:
  • miao6 - Shantou;
  • miou6 - Chaozhou.
Rime
Character 妙
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 宵 (91)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 彌笑切
Baxter mjiewH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/miᴇuH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/miɛuH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/mjæuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/miawH/
Li
Rong 		/miɛuH/
Wang
Li 		/mĭɛuH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/mi̯ɛuH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		miào
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		miu6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 妙
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		miào
Middle
Chinese 		‹ mjiewH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ew(ʔ)-s/
English marvelous

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * 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 妙
Reading # 1/1
No. 13702
Phonetic
component 		小
Rime
group 		宵
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		妙
Old
Chinese 		/*mews/

Definitions

妙

  1. subtle; mysterious; profound
  2. fine; glorious; marvelous; wonderful; exquisite
  3. ingenious; clever
  4. young
  5. a surname: Miao
Synonyms
  • (ingenious):
  • (fine):

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 妙 – see 眇 (“tiny; minute; minuscule”).
(This character is a variant form of 眇).

References

Japanese

Kanji

妙

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. mysterious
  2. strange, bizarre

Readings

Etymology

Kanji in this term
妙
みょう
Grade: S
goon

From Middle Chinese 妙 (MC mjiewH).

Pronunciation

Adjective

妙(みょう) • (myō) ←めう (meu)?-na (adnominal 妙(みょう)な (myō na), adverbial 妙(みょう)に (myō ni))

  1. strange
  2. excellent

Inflection

Inflection of 妙
Stem forms
Imperfective (未然形) 妙だろ みょうだろ myō daro
Continuative (連用形) 妙で みょうで myō de
Terminal (終止形) 妙だ みょうだ myō da
Attributive (連体形) 妙な みょうな myō na
Hypothetical (仮定形) 妙なら みょうなら myō nara
Imperative (命令形) 妙であれ みょうであれ myō de are
Key constructions
Informal negative 妙ではない
妙じゃない 		みょうではない
みょうじゃない 		myō de wa nai
myō ja nai
Informal past 妙だった みょうだった myō datta
Informal negative past 妙ではなかった
妙じゃなかった 		みょうではなかった
みょうじゃなかった 		myō de wa nakatta
myō ja nakatta
Formal 妙です みょうです myō desu
Formal negative 妙ではありません
妙じゃありません 		みょうではありません
みょうじゃありません 		myō de wa arimasen
myō ja arimasen
Formal past 妙でした みょうでした myō deshita
Formal negative past 妙ではありませんでした
妙じゃありませんでした 		みょうではありませんでした
みょうじゃありませんでした 		myō de wa arimasen deshita
myō ja arimasen deshita
Conjunctive 妙で みょうで myō de
Conditional 妙なら（ば） みょうなら（ば） myō nara (ba)
Provisional 妙だったら みょうだったら myō dattara
Volitional 妙だろう みょうだろう myō darō
Adverbial 妙に みょうに myō ni
Degree 妙さ みょうさ myōsa

Noun

妙(みょう) • (myō) ←めう (meu)?

  1. excellence

References

  1. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

妙 (eumhun 묘할 묘 (myohal myo))

  1. Hanja form? of 묘 (“mysterious, subtle”).
  2. Hanja form? of 묘 (“exquisite”).

Vietnamese

Han character

妙: Hán Nôm readings: diệu

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