秒 - miǎo - Chinese character definition, English meaning and stroke order

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9 strokes
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秒

miǎo

Definition

second (of time)
unit of angle or arc equivalent to one sixtieth of a degree

Character Decomposition

Related words (14)

秒殺

miǎo shā

(Internet) flash sale; (sports or online gaming) rapid dispatch of an opponent

stopwatch

second hand (of a clock)

(time) second

parallax second or parsec or pc, astronomic unit of distance, approx 3.26 light years

奈秒

nài miǎo

nanosecond, ns, 10^-9 s (Taiwan); PRC equivalent: 納秒

微秒

wēi miǎo

microsecond, µs, 10^-6 s

millisecond, ms

picosecond, ps, 10^-12 s

納秒

nà miǎo

nanosecond, ns, 10^-9 s (PRC); Taiwan equivalent: 奈秒

飛秒

fēi miǎo

femtosecond, fs, 10^-15 s

superglue

all the time

double prime symbol (″) (math., linguistics etc)

Idioms (2)

爭分奪秒

zhēng fēn duó miǎo

(lit.) fight minutes, snatch seconds (idiom); a race against time; making every second count

分秒必爭

fēn miǎo bì zhēng

seize every minute and second (idiom); not a minute to lose; every moment counts

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