妙 — Chinese character
妙
miào
mysterious, subtle; clever, exquisite, wonderful
- Pinyin
- miào
- Radical
- 38 ⼥ (Woman)
- Strokes
- 7
- Components
- 女 少
- Formation
- pictophonetic — woman; meaning component 女; sound component 少
- Japanese
- 妙 as a kanji
Common words with 妙
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 奇妙 | qí miào | wonderful; marvelous; intriguing; mysterious; strange |
| 巧妙 | qiǎo miào | ingenious; clever; ingenuity; artifice |
| 美妙 | měi miào | beautiful; wonderful |
| 微妙 | wēi miào | subtle |
| 莫名其妙 | mò míng qí miào | (idiom) baffling; bizarre; without rhyme or reason; inexplicable |
| 不妙 | bù miào | (of a turn of events) not too encouraging; far from good |
| 绝妙 (絕妙) | jué miào | exquisite |
| 精妙 | jīng miào | exquisite; fine and delicate (usu. of works of art) |
| 奥妙 (奧妙) | ào miào | marvelous; mysterious |
| 灵丹妙药 (靈丹妙藥) | líng dān miào yào | effective cure, miracle medicine (idiom); fig. wonder-cure for all problems; panacea |
| 妙计 (妙計) | miào jì | excellent plan; brilliant scheme |
| 神机妙算 (神機妙算) | shén jī miào suàn | divine strategy and wonderful planning (idiom); clever scheme |
English words written with 妙
妙 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Tao Te Ching 4 · Art of War 1 · Zhuangzi 4
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 1
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 15
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 27
- Art of War 13.17
- Zhuangzi The Identity of Contraries
- Zhuangzi Autumn Floods
- Zhuangzi Language
- Zhuangzi The Old Fisherman
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.