渺
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(of an expanse of water) vast; distant and indistinct; tiny or insignificant
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 水 +9
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 渺
- Common rank
- #2,664
- Unicode
- U+6E3A
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Formation & memory
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How 渺 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
氵 meaning “water” + 眇 sound ()
Components 氵 眇
How to remember it
insignificant · Heisig RSH #1534
泪 tears + 少 few
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 渺
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 渺无音信 | to receive no news whatsoever about sb | |
| 渺无人烟 | remote and uninhabited (idiom); deserted; God-forsaken | |
| 紧凑渺子线圈 | Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) | |
| 渺乎其微 | remote and insignificant (idiom) | |
| 渺子 | muon (particle physics) | |
| 渺小 | minute; tiny; negligible; insignificant | |
| 渺视 | to think little of; to look down on | |
| 渺远 | distant; remote (spatially or in time) | |
| 前途渺茫 | not knowing what to do next; at a loose end | |
| 飘渺 | faintly discernible; indistinct; misty | |
| 浩渺 | vast; extending into the distance | |
| 旷渺 | remote and vast | |
| 渺茫 | uncertain; remote; distant and indistinct; vague | |
| 渺渺茫茫 | uncertain; unknown; fuzzy | |
| 杳渺 | dimly discernible | |
| 缥渺 | variant of 飄渺|飘渺[piao1 miao3] |