苗

苗 U+82D7, 苗 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-82D7 ← 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, 𪣲, 庿, 描, 渵, 瞄, 緢, 貓 (猫), 錨 (锚), 鶓, (鹋), 𠪄, 𣈴, 𣬍, 𤋙

• 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

1. 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

2. shoot-like object

   火苗  ―  huǒmiáo  ―  tongue of flame

3. descendant (of a family); offspring

   獨苗／独苗  ―  dúmiáo  ―  only child

4. symptom (of a trend)

   苗頭／苗头  ―  miáotóu  ―  symptom of a trend; first signs

   礦苗／矿苗  ―  kuàngmiáo  ―  outcrop

5. young (of an animal)

   魚苗／鱼苗  ―  yúmiáo  ―  fry (young fish)

6. Short for 疫苗 (yìmiáo, “vaccine”).

   卡介苗  ―  kǎjièmiáo  ―  Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine

7. 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

8. 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–

(Jōyō kanji)

1. 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

For pronunciation and definitions of 苗 – see the following entry.

【なえ】 [noun] seedling; young plant

(This term, 苗, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

苗 (eumhun 모 묘 (mo myo))

1. hanja form^? of 묘 (“sprouts”)
2. hanja form^? of 묘 (“Miao people”)

苗: Hán Nôm readings: meo, miêu

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