苗 U+82D7, 苗 ← 苖[U+82D6] CJK Unified Ideographs 苘 →[U+82D8]
苗 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+5, 8 strokes, Cangjie input 廿田 (TW), four-corner 44600, composition ⿱艹田)
- 㑤, 喵, 媌, 描, 渵, 瞄, 䅦, 緢 (𰬬), 貓 (猫), 錨 (锚), 鶓 (鹋), 庿
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 1022, character 28
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30781
- Dae Jaweon: page 1481, character 19
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3191, character 2
- Unihan data for U+82D7
trad. 苗 simp. # 苗
Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 艸 (“grass”) + 田 (“field”).
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(m/b)rəw (“grain; seed; lineage”) (STEDT); see 物 (OC *mɯd, “thing, matter, substance”) for more cognates.
苗
- seedling; shoot; sprout (Classifier: 株; 根) 麥苗／麦苗 ― màimiáo ― wheat seedling 蒜苗 ― suànmiáo ― garlic shoot 間苗／间苗 ― jiànmiáo ― to thin out seedlings
- shoot-like object 火苗 ― huǒmiáo ― tongue of flame
- descendant (of a family); offspring 獨苗／独苗 ― dúmiáo ― only child
- symptom (of a trend) 苗頭／苗头 ― miáotóu ― symptom of a trend; first signs 礦苗／矿苗 ― kuàngmiáo ― outcrop
- young (of an animal) 魚苗／鱼苗 ― yúmiáo ― fry (young fish)
- short for 疫苗 (yìmiáo, “vaccine”) 卡介苗 ― kǎjièmiáo ― Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine
- the Miao peoples (including Hmong, Hmu, A-Hmao, Qo Xiong, etc.) 苗語／苗语 ― miáoyǔ ― Miao languages 苗繡／苗绣 ― miáoxiù ― Miao embroidery
- a surname 苗翠花 ― Miáo Cuìhuā ― Miu Tsui-fa (mother of fictional martial artist Fong Sai-yuk)
- (descendant):
- (symptom of a trend):
For pronunciation and definitions of 苗 – see 鱙.(This character is a variant form of 鱙).
- “苗”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014-
- (Cantonese) 粵音資料集叢
- 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long]; 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu]; 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying]; 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019), “苗”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 179.
(Jōyō kanji)
- seedling; young plant
- Go-on: みょう (myō)←めう (meu, historical)
- Kan-on: びょう (byō, Jōyō)←べう (beu, historical)
- Kun: なえ (nae, 苗, Jōyō)、なわ (nawa, 苗, Jōyō †)、かり (kari)
Kanji in this term 苗 なえGrade: S kun’yomi
From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *napay.
Apophonic form of 苗(なわ) (nawa, “seedling”, bound form, only used in compounds), similar to nouns such as 神 (kami, kan-, kamu-, “god”) and 目 (me, ma-, “eye”).
- (Tokyo) なえ [náꜜè] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
- IPA(key): [na̠e̞]
苗(なえ) • (nae) ←なへ (nafe)?
- seedling; young plant
- 苗木(なえぎ) (naegi)
- 苗床(なえとこ) (naetoko)
- 早苗(さなえ) (sanae)
- “苗”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia][2] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015-2026
苗 (eumhun 모 묘 (mo myo))
- hanja form? of 묘 (“sprouts”)
- hanja form? of 묘 (“Miao people”)
苗: Hán Nôm readings: meo, miêu
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