苗

苗 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 廿田 (TW), four-corner 4460₀, composition ⿱艹田)

• 㑤, 喵, 媌, 描, 渵, 瞄, 䅦, 緢(𰬬), 貓(猫), 錨(锚), 鶓(鹋), 庿

• 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

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):

• “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–
• (Cantonese) 粵音資料集叢
• 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long], 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu], 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying], 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019) “苗”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 179.

(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)

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *napay.

Apophonic form of 苗(なわ) (nawa, “seedling”, bound form, only used in compounds), similar to nouns such as 神 (kami, kan-, kamu-, “god”) and 目 (me, ma-, “eye”).

• (Tokyo) なえ [náꜜè] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [na̠e̞]

苗(なえ) • (nae) ^{←なへ (nafe)?}

1. seedling; young plant

• 苗木(なえぎ) (naegi)
• 苗床(なえとこ) (naetoko)
• 早苗(さなえ) (sanae)

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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