渺

渺 U+6E3A, 渺
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6E3A
← 渹
[U+6E39] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 渻 →
[U+6E3B]

Translingual

Han character

渺 (radical 85, 水+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 水月山竹 (EBUH), four-corner 39120, composition ⿰氵眇)

  1. endlessly long, boundless, vast
  2. The number 10-11

See also
  • Chinese Numeral 渺

References
  • KangXi: page 635, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17794
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1043, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1673, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+6E3A

Chinese
simp. and trad.
 渺

Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (小) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
觘 *sm̥ʰreːw, *sm̥ʰreːws
抄 *sm̥ʰreːw, *sm̥ʰreːws
鈔 *sm̥ʰreːw, *sm̥ʰreːws
訬 *sm̥ʰreːw, *mewʔ
炒 *sʰroːʔ
吵 *sm̥ʰreːwʔ, *mewʔ
耖 *sm̥ʰreːws
仯 *sm̥ʰreːws
眇 *mewʔ
渺 *mewʔ
杪 *mewʔ
秒 *mewʔ
篎 *mewʔ, *mews
妙 *mews
玅 *mews
釥 *sm̥ʰewʔ
小 *smewʔ
少 *hmjewʔ, *hmjews
麨 *m̥ʰjewʔ
尠 *senʔ, *smos

Pronunciation
Rime
Character 渺
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 宵 (91)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 亡沼切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /miᴇuX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /miɛuX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /mjæuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /miawX/
Li
Rong		 /miɛuX/
Wang
Li		 /mĭɛuX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /mi̯ɛuX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 miǎo
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 渺
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 miǎo
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ mjiewX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[m]ewʔ/
English vast (of water)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 渺
Reading # 1/1
No. 13695
Phonetic
component		 小
Rime
group		 宵
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 眇
Old
Chinese		 /*mewʔ/

Definitions

渺

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Compounds
  • 微渺
  • 杳渺
  • 浩渺 (hàomiǎo)
  • 深渺
  • 渺不可測／渺不可测
  • 渺不相涉
  • 渺小 (miǎoxiǎo)
  • 渺渺
  • 渺渺冥冥
  • 渺渺茫茫
  • 渺無聲息／渺无声息
  • 渺然
  • 渺茫 (miǎománg)
  • 渺視／渺视 (miǎoshì)
  • 渺邈
  • 煙波浩渺／烟波浩渺
  • 縹渺／缥渺
  • 茫茫渺渺
  • 荒渺不經／荒渺不经
  • 飄渺／飘渺 (piāomiǎo)
  • 魚沉雁渺／鱼沉雁渺

Japanese

Kanji
渺

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

渺 • (myo) (hangeul 묘, revised myo, McCune–Reischauer myo, Yale myo)

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Vietnamese

Han character

渺 (miểu, diễu, diệu, giẻo)

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