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渺

渺 U+6E3A, 渺
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6E3A
← 渹
[U+6E39] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 渻 →
[U+6E3B]

Translingual

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Han character

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渺 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 水月山竹 (EBUH), four-corner 39120, composition ⿰氵眇)

References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 635, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17794
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1043, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1673, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+6E3A

Chinese

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simp. and trad.
 渺
alternative forms 淼 “vast”

Glyph origin

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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 氵 + phonetic 眇 (OC *mewʔ).

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character 渺
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
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 渺
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		miǎo
Middle
Chinese 		‹ mjiewX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*[m]ewʔ/
English vast (of water)

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 渺
Reading # 1/1
No. 13695
Phonetic
component 		小
Rime
group 		宵
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		眇
Old
Chinese 		/*mewʔ/

Definitions

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渺

  1. (of water) vast; boundless; endlessly long; expansive
  2. (alt. form 眇) tiny; insignificant
  3. vague; indistinct; uncertain
  4. (obsolete) the number 10-11

Compounds

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See also

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Chinese historical small numbers
Value Character Notes
10-1 分 (fèn) Still in use. SI prefix deci-.
10-2 厘 (lí), 釐 (lí) Still in use. SI prefix centi-.
10-3 毫 (háo) Still in use. SI prefix milli-. Also 毛 (máo).
10-4 絲／丝 (sī) Rarely used today.
秒 (miǎo) Obsolete, only in ancient texts.
10-5 忽 (hū) Rarely used today.
10-6 微 (wēi) Still in use. SI prefix micro-.
10-7 纖／纤 (xiān) Obsolete.
10-8 沙 (shā) Obsolete.
10-9 塵／尘 (chén) Obsolete. 納／纳 (nà) and 奈 (nài) are used for nano-.
10-10 埃 (āi) Obsolete. In modern use, the character for angstrom (10-10 m).
10-11 渺 (miǎo) Obsolete.
10-12 漠 (mò) Obsolete. 皮 (pí) is used for SI prefix pico-.

Japanese

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Kanji

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渺

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

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  • Go-on: みょう (myō)
  • Kan-on: びょう (byō)
  • Kun: ひろい (hiroi, 渺い)、はるか (haruka, 渺か)
  • Nanori: ひろ (hiro)

Korean

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Hanja

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渺 • (myo) (hangeul 묘, revised myo, McCune–Reischauer myo, Yale myo)

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Vietnamese

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Han character

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渺: Hán Nôm readings: miểu, diễu, diệu, giẻo

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