Chinese Dialects : List with all references

Number: 366

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 妙

MC description : 效開三去笑明

ZIHUI: 1181 1419

Beijing: miau 3

Jinan: miɔ 3

Xi'an: miau 3

Taiyuan: miau 3

Hankou: miau 3

Chengdu: miau 3

Yangzhou: miɔ 3

Suzhou: miä 12

Wenzhou: miɛ 32

Changsha: miau 32

Shuangfeng: miǝ 32

Nanchang: miɛu 32

Meixian: miau 3

Guangzhou: miu 32

Xiamen: biau 32

Chaozhou: miǝu 22

Fuzhou: mieu 32

Shanghai: miɔ 32

Zhongyuan yinyun: miau 3

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Chinese characters :

Character: 妙

Modern (Beijing) reading: miào

Preclassic Old Chinese: mews

Classic Old Chinese: mewh

Western Han Chinese: mjawh

Eastern Han Chinese: mjawh

Early Postclassic Chinese: mjèw

Middle Postclassic Chinese: mjèw

Late Postclassic Chinese: mjèw

Middle Chinese: mjèw

English meaning : strange, supernatural; beautiful [LZ]

Russian meaning[s]: 1) хитроумный; хитрый, тонкий; искусный; 2) сокровенный, тайный; секрет; искусство; 3) прекрасно, прелестно, великолепно; интересный; превосходный; 4) молодой

Comments: Standard Sino-Viet. is diệu. For *m cf. Xiamen biau⁶, Chaozhou miǝu⁶, Fuzhou mieu⁶.

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 38

Four-angle index: 4068

Karlgren code: 1158 b

Vietnamese reading: miều

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