Chinese Character Wiki

杪

miǎo

tip of twig

The tip 少 of a branch 木; 少 also provides the pronunciation

Components
木 meaning component

木  Meaning component

mù

  

tree

少 sound,meaning component

少  Sound Meaning component

shǎo, shào

  

few

Evolution

杪 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
杪 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

杪  

miǎo

tip of twig, top of tree; twig; the limit; tip of branch

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[m]ewʔ

mjiewX

miǎo

the utmost end


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6035th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+676A

Shuowen

“杪，木標末也。从木，少聲。”


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