妙 (miào): wonderful
妙 (miào) is a Chinese character meaning “wonderful.” Classified as HSK Level 6 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 女 (semantic) and 少 (phonetic). It ranks #1243 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 妙 woman. Its radical form 女 (woman) appears in many related characters such as 女 (nǚ, woman), 奶 (nǎi, grandmother, milk), 她 (tā, she).
Definitions
- wonderful
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 妙
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 美妙adjective | měi miào | beautiful |
| 不妙adjective | bù miào | (of a turn of events) not too encouraging |
| 奇妙adjective | qí miào | wonderful |
| 绝妙adjective | jué miào | exquisite |
| 莫名其妙phrase | mò míng qí miào | (idiom) baffling |
| 微妙adjective | wēi miào | subtle |
| 妙不可言 | miào bù kě yán | too wonderful for words |
| 妙计noun | miào jì | excellent plan |
| 精妙adjective | jīng miào | exquisite |
| 奥妙adjective | ào miào | marvelous |
| 曼妙adjective | màn miào | (literary) graceful |
| 妙手noun | miào shǒu | miraculous hands of a healer |
| 妙处noun | miào chù | ideal place |
| 妙龄 | miào líng | (of a girl) in the prime of youth |
| 玄妙adjective | xuán miào | mysterious |
妙 appears in 49 compound words: 49 as the first character, 37 as the last, and 14 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 妙 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (16)
petty thief (lit. quick fingered and vanish); empty-handed; having nothing
petty thief (lit. quick fingered and vanish); empty-handed; having nothing
Showing 12 of 16 idioms containing 妙.
Example Sentences
这个设计很巧妙，解决了我们长期以来遇到的问题。
Zhè gè shèjì hěn qiǎomiào, jiějué le wǒmen chángqī yǐlái yù dào de wèntí.
This design is very clever and solves a problem we've had for a long time.
看图学习丨总书记妙语“典”明正确政绩观
kàn tú xué xí 丨 zǒng shū jì miào yǔ diǎn míng zhèng què zhèng jì guàn
Learn from the Pictures | The General Secretary’s Witty Remarks Illustrate the Correct View of Political Achievements
...宗宪出线宜兰县长蓝白怎么合?陈琬惠经典赛妙喻:不影响晋级决心
. . . zōng xiàn chū xiàn yí lán xiàn cháng lán bái zěn má gě ? chén 琬 huì jīng diǎn sài miào yù : bù yǐng xiǎng jìn jí jué xīn
... How does Zongxian go out of the Yilan County Mayor Blue and White? Chen Wanhui's classic metaphor: does not affect the determination to advance
75岁影后刘晓庆踩入短剧界 演妙龄少女激吻细30岁男星 80集新作《锦绣...
7 5 suì yǐng hòu liú xiǎo qìng cǎi rù duǎn jù jiè yǎn miào líng shǎo nǚ jī wěn xì 3 0 suì nán xīng 8 0 jí xīn zuò jǐn xiù . . .
75-year-old actress Liu Xiaoqing stepped into the short drama industry and played a young girl kissing a 30-year-old actor in 80 episodes of the new work "Splendid ...
...花使者|廣東美女拜年遭親戚催婚 6歲侄仔妙語反擊|有片
. . . huā shǐ zhě 廣 東 měi nǚ bài nián zāo 親 qī cuī hūn 歲 zhí zǐ miào 語 fǎn 擊 yǒu piàn
[Translation pending - quota exceeded]
茶敘妙語...韓國瑜:不要化骨綿掌 賴清德:專...
chá 敘 miào 語 . . . 韓 國 瑜 bù yāo huà gǔ 綿 zhǎng 賴 qīng dé 專 . . .
Tea Gathering Witty Exchanges... Han Kuo-yu: Don't resort to underhanded tactics. Lai Ching-te: Focus...
这个字形容得妙极了。
Zhège zìxíng róng de miào jíle.
That word describes it perfectly.
戏法人人会变，各有巧妙不同。
Xìfǎ rénrén huì biàn, gè yǒu qiǎomiào bù tóng.
Everyone's tricks are different; each differs in ingenious ways.
那是个微妙的局势。
Nàshi gè wēimiào de júshì.
That's a delicate matter.
她突然有了一个绝妙的灵感。
Tā tūrán yǒule yī gè juémiào de línggǎn.
Suddenly she had a brilliant inspiration.
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