Translingual

Han character

(radical 9 +4, 6 strokes, cangjie input 人火竹 (OFH), composition)

  1. child
  2. tiny; (archaic variant of ) minute, minuscule
  3. (archaic variant of 眇) blind in one eye

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Mandarin

Hanzi

(pinyin chào (chao4), miǎo (miao3), Wade-Giles ch'ao4, miao3)

Usage notes

The chào (chao4) reading is for the "child" and "tiny" definitions and the miǎo (miao3) reading is for the (archaic variant of 眇) "minute", "minuscule" and "blind in one eye" definitions.

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