淼

淼 · miǎo

a wide expanse of water

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Meanings & readings

Meaning & readings

Mandarin
miǎo
Cantonese
miu5
Definition source
Unihan kDefinition

a wide expanse of water

Dictionary definitions & readings

淼 miǎo · a flood; infinity

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Readings & dictionary references

HDZ · Mandarin readings and locators
31637.050:miǎo Source property ↗
XHC 1983 · Mandarin readings and locators
0788.110:miǎo Source property ↗
TGHZ 2013 · Mandarin readings and locators
252.110:miǎo Source property ↗
SMSZD 2003 · Mandarin and Cantonese
miǎo粵miu5 Source property ↗
Japanese · kana
ビョウ ミョウ Source property ↗
Korean · Hangul
묘:1N Source property ↗
Fanqie pairs
亡沼 Source property ↗
Cangjie input code
EEE Source property ↗
Four-corner lookup codes
1223.2 Source property ↗
Kangxi · dictionary positions
0632.200 Source property ↗
Song Ben Guang Yun · dictionary positions
298.24 Source property ↗
Grammata Serica Recensa · references
1161a Source property ↗

Form & structure

Writing & identity

Unicode
U+6DFC
Radical
水 · 85
Strokes
12
Residual strokes
8
Standard list
通用规范汉字表 · level 3 · #7371

Source record, not an individually reviewed etymological dossier.

Stroke order

12 strokes
淼
Strokes
12
Convention
PRC · Make Me a Hanzi

12 strokes in writing order. Play to watch them, or Step through one at a time.

Modern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.

Words & connections

Dictionary & examples

History & distinctions

Related forms

No simplified/traditional variant assertion retained.

Historical readings

Middle Chinese
mjiewX · 亡沼 · 效開三上宵明 · #1686

PHONO-ML, source line 11091; CC BY 4.0. Source-generated reading categories, not modern pronunciation. Attribution & limitations.

Sources & reference

Evidence

Unihan 17.0.0 · Unicode License V3 · Official-list coverage

Exact Unihan properties
kCihaiT
811.201
kDaeJaweon
1039.030
kGSR
1161a
kHanYu
31637.050
kIRGDaeJaweon
1039.030
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
31637.050
kIRGKangXi
0632.200
kKangXi
0632.200
kMeyerWempe
1838f
kMorohashi
17699
kNelson
2586
kSBGY
298.24
kSMSZD2003Index
372.03
kCangjie
EEE
kFourCornerCode
1223.2
kMojiJoho
MJ015513
kPhonetic
1253
kUnihanCore2020
GHMT
kIICore
BGTM
kIRG_GSource
G0-6D35
kIRG_HSource
HB2-D9E7
kIRG_JSource
J13-7676
kIRG_KPSource
KP1-51C0
kIRG_KSource
K1-6064
kIRG_TSource
T2-3D2C
kRSUnicode
85.8
kTotalStrokes
12
kBigFive
D9E7
kCCCII
224A32
kCNS1986
2-3D2C
kCNS1992
2-3D2C
kEACC
224A32
kGB0
7721
kGB1
7721
kIBMJapan
FB45
kJIS0213
1,86,86
kJis1
3970
kKoreanName
2015
kMainlandTelegraph
8693
kTGH
2013:7371
kTaiwanTelegraph
8675
kXerox
304:072
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+8523+85.4.8
kCantonese
miu5
kDefinition
a wide expanse of water
kFanqie
亡沼
kHangul
묘:1N
kHanyuPinyin
31637.050:miǎo
kJapanese
ビョウ ミョウ
kJapaneseKun
HIROI
kJapaneseOn
BYOU MYOU
kKorean
MYO
kMandarin
miǎo
kSMSZD2003Readings
miǎo粵miu5
kTGHZ2013
252.110:miǎo
kTang
miɛ̌u
kXHC1983
0788.110:miǎo

Sentences in context

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Structure & connections

0.10
2dictionary records using 淼0forms using this shape0attributed sound links
⿱ Above / below

Shape description
水 above 沝 · the shape used in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, North Korea
Source notation ^⿱水沝$(GHTJKP)
BabelStone · 2025-06-27. Encoded shape and region tags; graphical analysis does not establish historical function.

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Retained descriptions & scope

^⿱水沝$(GHTJKP)

All alternatives are retained. Only the first description drives component search and graphical links. Counts describe this snapshot, not frequency. Evidence and method.