DICTIONARY · CC-CEDICT

讀秒

简读秒 · 繁讀秒

Mandarin · pinyin dú miǎo

to count down the remaining seconds (e.g. in games, rocket launches, New Year's Eve)
(of a boxing referee) to administer the count following a knock-down, starting from "one"

Full entryShow on map

Characters in this entry

讀: dú · read, study; pronounce
秒: miǎo · beard of grain or corn; a second
读: dú · read, study; pronounce

Written characters and their own readings; the entry’s pronunciation is shown above.

Explore the spelling

Mandarin tones

2–3 · du2 miao3

Compare attested words with these syllables ↗

Dictionary tones. Connected speech can change their realization.

Connected dictionary

3character links

Explore word families ↗Compare pronunciations ↗Open character structure ↗

Counts describe dictionary records, not word frequency or semantic similarity. Source identities stay separate.

Read this spelling in Classical texts

Follow a written form into the eight pinned witnesses: Analects, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Han Feizi, Sunzi and the Mao Shijing. A match is a place to investigate; it does not prove that a modern dictionary sense fits the passage.

讀秒 · find source passages ↗ · 读秒 · find source passages ↗

Explore Classical grammar ↗

Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary

Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section

Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.

verb

(literally, figuratively) to count down by the second

Source page · dump 2026-09-02 · Contributors & history

Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source & license · Data pack