妙
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clever; wonderful
- HSK 3.0
- Level 6
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 女 +4
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 妙
- Common rank
- #1,453
- Unicode
- U+5999
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Formation & memory
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Words with 妙
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 妙在不言中 | the charm lies in what is left unsaid (idiom) | |
| 妙手空空 | petty thief (lit. quick fingered and vanish); empty-handed; having nothing | |
| 妙不可言 | too wonderful for words | |
| 妙笔生花 | gifted or skillful writing | |
| 生花妙笔 | beautiful or talented writing | |
| 妙手回春 | (idiom) (of a doctor) to effect a miracle cure | |
| 妙语横生 | to be full of wit and humor | |
| 神机妙算 | divine strategy and wonderful planning (idiom); clever scheme; supremely clever in his sch… | |
| 妙语如珠 | sparkling with wit (idiom) | |
| 妙语连珠 | sparkling with wit (idiom) | |
| 妙法莲华经 | The Lotus Sutra | |
| 奇思妙想 | an unconventional but wonderful idea | |
| 莫明其妙 | variant of 莫名其妙[mo4 ming2 qi2 miao4] | |
| 莫名其妙 | (idiom) baffling; bizarre; without rhyme or reason; inexplicable | |
| 不妙 | (of a turn of events) not too encouraging; far from good; anything but reassuring | |
| 灵丹妙药 | effective cure, miracle medicine (idiom); fig. wonder-cure for all problems; panacea; elix… | |
| 妙手 | miraculous hands of a healer; highly skilled person; brilliant move in chess or weiqi (go)… | |
| 高妙 | masterly; subtle and clever (or artwork, writing etc) | |
| 妙法 | brilliant plan; ingenious method; perfect solution | |
| 妙语 | witticism |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 少 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 少 sound part | few, little; less; inadequate | |
| 沙 | sand, gravel, pebbles; granulated | |
| 省 | province; frugal; to save, to leave out | |
| 炒 | to boil, to fry, to roast, to sauté; to trade stock | |
| 抄 | copy, plagiarism; to confiscate, to seize | |
| 纱 | gauze, muslin, yarn | |
| 秒 | a second; a corn kernel; measure word for time | |
| 钞 | bank note, paper money; to counterfeit | |
| 吵 | to argue, to dispute; to annoy, to disturb | |
| 耖 | harrow-like implement for pulverizing clods of soil; to level ground with such an implemen… |