Chinese symbol for “stopwatch”
秒表
miǎo biǎo
stopwatch
The closest CC-CEDICT match for stopwatch is 秒表 (miǎo biǎo), defined as: stopwatch.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “stopwatch”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 马表 (馬表) | mǎ biǎo | stopwatch |
| 停表 | tíng biǎo | stopwatch; (sports) to stop the clock |
| 跑表 (跑錶) | pǎo biǎo | stopwatch |
| 码表 (碼表) | mǎ biǎo | speedometer; stopwatch |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 秒表.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 秒钟 (秒鐘) | miǎo zhōng | (time) second |
| 秒杀 (秒殺) | miǎo shā | (Internet) flash sale; (sports or online gaming) rapid dispatch of an opponent |
| 毫秒 | háo miǎo | millisecond, ms |
| 数秒 (數秒) | shǔ miǎo | to count the number of seconds (between two events) |
| 争分夺秒 (爭分奪秒) | zhēng fēn duó miǎo | lit. fight minutes, snatch seconds (idiom); a race against time; making every second count |
| 秒针 (秒針) | miǎo zhēn | second hand (of a clock) |
| 代表 | dài biǎo | representative; delegate |
| 表示 | biǎo shì | (of sb) to express; to state; to show; (of sth) to indicate; to signify; to show |
See also: Japanese symbol for “stopwatch”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.