# 杪

| 杪 | U+676A, &#26474; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-676A |
| ← 杩 [U+6769] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 杫 → [U+676B] |

## Translingual
### Han character

杪 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 木火竹 (DFH), four-corner 4992$_0$, composition ⿰木少)

#### Derived characters

* 𣶲

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 513, character 2
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14490
* Dae Jaweon: page 898, character 12
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1168, character 9
* Unihan data for U+676A

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 觘 | *sm̥ʰreːw, *sm̥ʰreːws |
| 抄 | *sm̥ʰreːw, *sm̥ʰreːws |
| 鈔 | *sm̥ʰreːw, *sm̥ʰreːws |
| 訬 | *sm̥ʰreːw, *mewʔ |
| 炒 | *sʰroːʔ |
| 吵 | *sm̥ʰreːwʔ, *mewʔ |
| 耖 | *sm̥ʰreːws |
| 仯 | *sm̥ʰreːws |
| 眇 | *mewʔ |
| 渺 | *mewʔ |
| 杪 | *mewʔ |
| 秒 | *mewʔ |
| 篎 | *mewʔ, *mews |
| 妙 | *mews |
| 玅 | *mews |
| 釥 | *sm̥ʰewʔ |
| 小 | *smewʔ |
| 少 | *hmjewʔ, *hmjews |
| 麨 | *m̥ʰjewʔ |
| 尠 | *senʔ, *smos |

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): miǎo (miao$^3$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄠˇ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): miu$^5$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: miǎo
*** Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄠˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: miǎo
*** Wade–Giles: miao$^3$
*** Yale: myǎu
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: meau
*** Palladius: мяо (mjao)
*** Sinological IPA : /mi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: miu$^5$
*** Yale: míuh
*** Cantonese Pinyin: miu$^5$
*** Guangdong Romanization: miu$^5$
*** Sinological IPA : /miːu̯¹³/
* Middle Chinese: mjiewX
Rime :
| Character | 杪 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 明 (4) |
| Final (韻) | 宵 (91) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 亡沼切 |
| Baxter | mjiewX |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /miᴇu$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /miɛu$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /mjæu$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /miaw$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /miɛu$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /mĭɛu$^X$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /mi̯ɛu$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | miǎo |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | miu$^5$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[m]ewʔ/
    (Zhengzhang): /*mewʔ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 杪 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | miǎo |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ mjiew$^X$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*[m]ewʔ/ |
| English | the utmost end |
| Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary. ||
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 杪 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 13697 |
| Phonetic component | 小 |
| Rime group | 宵 |
| Rime subdivision | 2 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 眇 |
| Old Chinese | /*mewʔ/ |

### Definitions

杪
* (literary) tip of a branch; top of a tree
* (literary) end (of a month, year, or season)
* (literary) minute; slight

### Compounds

* 月杪 (yuèmiǎo)
* 木杪
* 末杪年
* 杪季
* 杪小 (miǎoxiǎo)
* 杪忽
* 杪曶
* 林杪
* 杪秋
* 樹杪 / 树杪
* 歲杪 / 岁杪 (suìmiǎo)

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

#### Readings

* Go-on: みょう (myō)
* Kan-on: びょう (byō)
* Kun: こずえ (kozue, 杪)

### Etymology

* Kanji in this term
* 杪
* こずえ Hyōgai
* kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 杪 – see the following entry. :
| 【梢こずえ】J | [noun] a treetop [proper noun] a female given name [proper noun] a surname |
(This term, 杪, is an alternative spelling of the above term.) :

## Korean
### Hanja

杪 (eum 초 (cho))
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

杪: Hán Nôm readings: diễu, miểu
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#### References

* Nom Foundation