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苗

miáo

HSK 5 Character

What 苗 means

1. sprout

Other readings

苗 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• Miáosurname Miao; Miao ethnic group

Example sentences

• 我接种了流感疫苗。
  Wǒ jiēzhòng le liúgǎnyìmiáo.
  I was vaccinated against the flu.
• 疫苗不会导致自闭症。
  Vaccines don't cause autism.
• 说苗条比说瘦更有礼貌。
  Shuō miáotiao bǐ shuō shòu gèng yǒulǐmào.
  It's more polite to say thin than skinny.
• 我不需要接种流感疫苗。
  I don't need a flu shot.
• 我没有接种过冠状病毒疫苗。
  I haven't had the vaccine for Coronavirus.
• 苗瑶语系的语言分布于东南亚和中国南方山区。
  Languages in the Hmong-Mien language family, also referred to as the Miao-Yao language family, are spoken across Southeast Asia and mountainous areas of southern China.

Words starting with 苗

• 苗条miáo tiao(of a woman) slim; slender; graceful
• 苗族Miáo zúMiao ethnic group
• 苗头miáo toufirst signs; development (of a situation)
• 苗子miáo ziyoung successor; seedling; sapling
• 苗圃miáo pǔplant nursery; seedbed
• 苗木miáo mùsapling; young tree (esp. nursery-grown)
• 苗床miáo chuángseedbed
• 苗期miáo qī(agriculture) seedling stage
• 苗裔miáo yìoffspring; descendant; progeny
• 苗栗Miáo lìMiaoli city and county in northwest Taiwan
• 苗栗市Miáo lì shìMiaoli city in northwest Taiwan, capital of Miaoli county
• 苗栗县Miáo lì xiànMiaoli county in northwest Taiwan
• 苗家Miáo jiāsee 苗族

Words containing 苗

• 拔苗助长bá miáo zhù zhǎngto spoil things through excessive enthusiasm (idiom)
• 疫苗yì miáovaccine
• 火苗huǒ miáoflame
• 树苗shù miáosapling; young tree
• 幼苗yòu miáoyoung sprout; bud; sapling
• 育苗yù miáoto raise seedlings or saplings
• 保苗bǎo miáoto protect young plants, ensuring that enough survive to produce a good crop
• 出苗chū miáoto sprout; to come out (of seedling); to bud
• 嫩苗nèn miáoseedling; tender young shoot; sprout
• 植苗zhí miáotree planting
• 独苗dú miáoonly child; sole scion
• 种苗zhǒng miáoseedling
• 菌苗jūn miáovaccine
• 药苗yào miáomedicinal herb seedling
• 补苗bǔ miáoto fill gaps with seedlings
• 豆苗dòu miáopea shoots; bean seedling
• 间苗jiàn miáothinning out seedlings
• 露苗lòu miáo(young sprouts) come out; same as 出苗
• 鱼苗yú miáofry; newly hatched fish
• 别苗头bié miáo tou(dialect) to compete with; to pit oneself against
• 卡介苗kǎ jiè miáoBCG vaccine; bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccine
• 单根独苗dān gēn dú miáoan only child
• 流感疫苗liú gǎn yì miáoinfluenza vaccine
• 灭活疫苗miè huó yì miáoinactivated vaccine

Characters that look like 苗

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

• 丽lìbeautiful
• 酋qiútribal chief
• 茵yīnmattress
• 茜qiàn(bound form) Indian madder; munjeet (Rubia cordifolia); (bound form) madder red…
• 甫fǔ(classical) barely; just; just now
• 茔yíng(literary) a grave

Sounds the same

Read miáo, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 描to depict; to trace (a drawing); to copy
• 瞄to take aim; (fig.) to aim one's looks at; to glance at
• 鹋used in 鸸鹋