瞄

瞄 U+7784, 瞄 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7784 ← 瞃 [U+7783] CJK Unified Ideographs 瞅 → [U+7785]

Translingual

Han character

瞄 (Kangxi radical 109, 目+8, 13 strokes, cangjie input 月山廿田 (BUTW), four-corner 6406₀, composition ⿰目苗)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 813, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23554
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2494, character 7
• Unihan data for U+7784

Chinese

trad.		瞄
simp. #		瞄

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 目 (“eye”) + phonetic 苗

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): miáo (miao²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄠˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): miu⁴
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): bieo²
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): biâu / biô

  (Teochew, Peng'im): miao⁵ / miou⁵ / bhio⁵ / bhiê⁵

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹miau

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: miáo
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄠˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: miáo
    • Wade–Giles: miao²
    • Yale: myáu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: miau
    • Palladius: мяо (mjao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mi̯ɑʊ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: miu⁴
    • Yale: mìuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: miu⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: miu⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /miːu̯²¹/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian, Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: bieo²
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: bá̤u
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pieu¹³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: biâu / biô
    • Tâi-lô: biâu / biô
    • Phofsit Daibuun: biaau, biooi
    • IPA (Xiamen): /biau²⁴/, /bio²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /biau²⁴/, /bio²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /biau¹³/, /bio¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /biau²⁴/, /bio²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /biau²³/, /biɤ²³/

Note:

• biâu - literary;
• biô - vernacular.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: miao⁵ / miou⁵ / bhio⁵ / bhiê⁵
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: miâu / miôu / biô / biê
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /miau⁵⁵/, /miou⁵⁵/, /bio⁵⁵/, /bie⁵⁵/

Note:

• miao5/miou5 - literary (miou5 - Chaozhou);
• bhio5/bhiê5 (bhiē5 - Chaozhou).

• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ¹miau
    • MiniDict: 'miau^平
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹'miau
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /miɔ⁵³/

Definitions

瞄

1. to aim; to take aim at
2. to set sight on
3. to peek at; to glance at

   我趕快瞄了一眼時鐘，發現快要遲到了。 [MSC, trad.]
   我赶快瞄了一眼时钟，发现快要迟到了。 [MSC, simp.]

   Wǒ gǎnkuài miáo le yī yǎn shízhōng, fāxiàn kuàiyào chídào le. [Pinyin]

   I quickly glanced at the clock and found out that I am almost late.

4. (Cantonese) to target at

   佢畀人瞄住嚟打。 [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]

   keoi⁵ bei² jan⁴ miu⁴ zyu⁶ lai⁴ daa². [Jyutping]

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Compounds

• 瞄準／瞄准 (miáozhǔn)

 

References

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “瞄”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 157.

Japanese

Kanji

瞄

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: みょう (myō)
• Kan-on: びょう (byō)
• Kun: みつめる (mitsumeru)

Vietnamese

Han character

瞄: Hán Nôm readings: miểu, miêu

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