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眇

眇

Translingual

Han character

眇 (radical 109 目+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 月山火竹 (BUFH), four-corner 69020)

  1. blind in one eye
  2. minute, minuscule

References

  • KangXi: page 802, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23188
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1218, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2472, character 15
  • Unihan data for U+7707

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 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

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 眇
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
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /miᴇuX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /miɛuX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /mjæuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /miawX/
Li
Rong		 /miɛuX/
Wang
Li		 /mĭɛuX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /mi̯ɛuX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 miǎo
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 眇
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 miǎo
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ mjiewX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[m]ewʔ/
English very small, minute

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

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] 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 眇
Reading # 1/1
No. 13694
Phonetic
component		 小
Rime
group		 宵
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 眇
Old
Chinese		 /*mewʔ/

Definitions

眇

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Compounds

  • 俯遂幽眇
  • 幽眇
  • 微眇
  • 杳眇
  • 眇天末
  • 眇小
  • 眇小丈夫
  • 眇然
  • 眇眇
  • 眇眇忽忽
  • 眇覿／眇觌
  • 眇風／眇风
  • 眇默
  • 瞟眇
  • 窅眇
  • 要眇
  • 飄眇／飘眇

Japanese

Kanji

眇

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

眇 • ‎(myo) (hangeul 묘, revised myo, McCune-Reischauer myo, Yale myo)

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