miǎo
blind in one eye
Too small 少 to be seen by the naked eye 目
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[m]ewʔ | mjiewX | miǎo | very small, minute |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
5993rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+7707 |
Shuowen | “眇,一目小也。从目,从少,少亦聲。” |
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