秒

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秒 U+79D2, 秒
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-79D2
← 科
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 秓 →

Translingual

Han character

秒 (Kangxi radical 115, 禾+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 竹木火竹 (HDFH), four-corner 29920, composition ⿰禾少)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 850, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24952
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1274, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2593, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+79D2

Chinese

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 *mewʔ) : semantic 禾 (“cereal; grain”) + phonetic 少 (OC *hmjewʔ, *hmjews).

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.
 秒

Pronunciation

Note:
  • Taiwan:
    • biáu - literary;
    • bió - vernacular.
Note:
  • miao2 - Shantou;
  • miou2 - Chaozhou.
Rime
Character 秒
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 宵 (91)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 亡沼切
Baxter mjiewX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/miᴇuX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/miɛuX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/mjæuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/miawX/
Li
Rong 		/miɛuX/
Wang
Li 		/mĭɛuX/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/mi̯ɛuX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		miǎo
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		miu5
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 秒
Reading # 1/1
No. 13698
Phonetic
component 		小
Rime
group 		宵
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		眇
Old
Chinese 		/*mewʔ/

Definitions

秒

  1. (obsolete) awn; arista
  2. (obsolete) tiny; minute; insignificant
  3. (obsolete) tip; end; extremity
  4. Classifier for time: second
    一天有86400秒。  ―  Yī tiān yǒu 86400 miǎo.  ―  There are 86,400 seconds in one day.
  5. Classifier for measuring an angle or latitude/longitude: second; arcsecond
  6. (obsolete) unit of length equal to 0.0001 cun
  7. (neologism, by extension) in seconds; immediately; instantly; at once
    秒回  ―  miǎo huí  ―  to reply instantly
    秒刪／秒删  ―  miǎo shān  ―  to delete instantly
    秒放  ―  miǎo fàng  ―  to release immediately
  8. (neologism, by extension, of player, enemy, problem, etc.) to instantly kill, finish, solve, etc.
    這道題用洛必達法則秒了。 [MSC, trad.]
    这道题用洛必达法则秒了。 [MSC, simp.]
    Zhè dào tí yòng luòbìdá fǎzé miǎo le.
    You can solve this problem instantly using L'Hospital's rule.
Synonyms
Compounds

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 秒 – see 藐 (“small; young; to look down on; to think little of; etc.”).
(This character is the second-round simplified form of 藐).
Notes:

Japanese

Kanji

秒

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. second

Readings

  • Go-on: みょう (myō)
  • Kan-on: びょう (byō, Jōyō)←べう (beu, historical)
  • Kun: のぎ (nogi, 秒)

Compounds

Etymology

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia ja
Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia ja
Kanji in this term
秒
びょう
Grade: 3
on'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

秒(びょう) • (byō) ←べう (beu)?

  1. second (one-sixtieth of a minute; SI unit of time)
  2. second (unit of angular measure)

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), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Etymology

From a corrupted or unorthodox reading. The original reading is 묘 (myo) based on Middle Chinese 秒 (MC mjiewX).

Historical Readings
Dongguk Jeongun Reading
Dongguk Jeongun, 1448 묘ᇢ〯 (Yale: myǒw)

Pronunciation

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

秒 (eumhun 초 초 (cho cho))

  1. hanja form? of ] (“the SI unit of time, second”)
  2. hanja form? of ] (“(geometry) a second of arc”)

Compounds

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

秒: Hán Nôm readings: miểu, sao

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