miǎo
second (time), beard of grain or corn
Phonosemantic compound. 禾 represents the meaning and 少 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
miǎo
beard of grain or corn; a second; second (unit of time); arc second (angular measurement unit); (coll.) instantly
Most common words with 秒
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
second (unit of time) | ||
(time) second | ||
making every second count | ||
stopwatch | ||
every moment counts |
Statistics
HSK level 5
Appears in 30.6904% of movies
1106th most common character in movies
2028th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+79D2 |
Shuowen | “秒，禾芒也。从禾，少聲。” |
Sources
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