me, yāo
tiny
Pictograph of a twisted thread.
Evolution

Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*ʔˤ[i]w | 'ew | yāo | small (Shuōwén) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4505th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 3 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+5E7A |
Shuowen | “幺,小也。象子初生之形。” |
Sources
黃德寬《古文字譜系疏證》p.416
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