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渺

miǎo

HSK 6 Character

What 渺 means

1. (of an expanse of water) vast
2. distant and indistinct
3. tiny or insignificant

Example sentences

• 未来很渺茫。
  Wèilái hěn miǎománg.
  The future is very uncertain.
• 眼前的景色让齐里感到自身的渺小。
  Ziri felt humbled by such a scenery.

Words starting with 渺

• 渺小miǎo xiǎominute; tiny; negligible
• 渺茫miǎo mánguncertain; remote; distant and indistinct
• 渺子miǎo zǐmuon (particle physics)
• 渺视miǎo shìto think little of; to look down on
• 渺远miǎo yuǎndistant; remote (spatially or in time)
• 渺乎其微miǎo hū qí wēiremote and insignificant (idiom)
• 渺渺茫茫miǎo miǎo máng mánguncertain; unknown; fuzzy
• 渺无人烟miǎo wú rén yānremote and uninhabited (idiom); deserted; God-forsaken
• 渺无音信miǎo wú yīn xìnto receive no news whatsoever about sb

Words containing 渺

• 飘渺piāo miǎofaintly discernible; indistinct; misty
• 旷渺kuàng miǎoremote and vast
• 浩渺hào miǎovast; extending into the distance
• 前途渺茫qián tú miǎo mángnot knowing what to do next; at a loose end
• 紧凑渺子线圈Jǐn còu Miǎo zǐ Xiàn quānCompact Muon Solenoid (CMS)
• 杳渺yǎo miǎodimly discernible
• 缥渺piāo miǎovariant of 飘渺

Characters that look like 渺

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 解jiěto divide; to break up; to split
• 缔dì(archaic) to bind up inextricably; (bound form) to form an enduring union…
• 排páito arrange in order; to line up; to exclude; to eliminate; to repel; to expel…
• 雅yǎelegant
• 缈miǎoused in 缥缈
• 绺liǔskein; tuft; lock

Sounds the same

Read miǎo, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 秒second (unit of time); arc second (angular measurement unit); (colloquial) instantly
• 藐to despise; small; variant of 渺
• 邈profound; remote
• 淼a flood; infinity
• 缈used in 缥缈
• 眇blind in one eye; blind; tiny
• 杪the limit; tip of branch