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Character: 苗
Modern (Beijing) reading: miáo
Preclassic Old Chinese: m(r)aw
Classic Old Chinese: m(r)aw
Western Han Chinese: m(r)aw
Eastern Han Chinese: m(r)aw
Early Postclassic Chinese: mew
Middle Postclassic Chinese: mew
Late Postclassic Chinese: mew
Middle Chinese: mew
English meaning : grain in the blade; sprout, shoots
Russian meaning[s]: 1) всходы, побеги, ростки; 2) потомки; 3) племена мяо (нацменьшинство в провинциях Сычуань и Гуанси); 4) Мяо (фамилия)
Comments: For *m- cf. Min forms: Xiamen biau2, Chaozhou miǝu2, Fuzhou mieu2, Jianou miau2.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 140
Four-angle index: 1743
Karlgren code: 1159 a
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