Memory phrase for the character: 秒

秒

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Meaning second (of time)

Pronunciation

miǎo

Explanation

Left rice plant 禾, right: few/little 少 (A small 小 stroke ノ is too few)

Mnemonic
 
(To plant a) rice plant you need as little as one second.

Radicals

禾 grainGrain plant 木 with a spike ノ of grain
少 few, little
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 Vocabulary

秒表 miǎo biǎo  stopwatch
毫秒 háo miǎo  millisecond, ms
争分夺秒 zhēng fēn duó miǎo  lit. fight minutes, snatch seconds (idiom); a race against time; making every second count
争分夺秒 zhēng fēn duó miǎo  

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