妙 miào

1. miào adjective wonderful; fantastic
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: Middle Chinese: mjiewH ; as in 美妙 (Guoyu '妙' adj 1; Kroll 2015 '妙' 1; NCCED '妙' 2)
2. miào adjective clever
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (NCCED '妙' 3)
3. miào adjective subtle; mysterious; profound; abstruse; mystical
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 神奇, as in 奇妙 (Guoyu '妙' adj 2; Kroll 2015 '妙' 2; NCCED '妙' 1) As used by Zhi Yi of the Tiantai Buddhist school and others. Zhi Yi remarked in the Fa Hua Xuan Yi that 'That which is beyond conceptualization is called subtle.' (Swanson 1989, p. 15)
4. miào adjective fine; delicate
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (NCCED '妙' 1; Kroll 2015 '妙' 2a)
5. miào adjective young
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: As in 幼小 (Guoyu '妙' adj 4; Kroll 2015 '妙' 3)
6. miào adjective interesting
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: As in 有趣 (Guoyu '妙' adj 3)
7. miào noun profound reasoning
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '妙' n 1)
8. miào proper noun Miao
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
   Notes: (Guoyu '妙' n 1)

Contained in

• 妙妙熊历险记(妙妙熊歷險記) Adventures of the Gummi Bears (Disney animated series)
• 穷极其妙(窮極其妙) extremely fine
• 神机妙算(神機妙算) wonderful foresight
• 锦囊妙计(錦囊妙計) brocade sack of miracle plans; bag of tricks; fiendishly cunning masterplan
• 唯妙唯肖 portrayed in a clever manner
• 妙不可言 too wonderful for words
• 妙语如珠(妙語如珠) sparkling with wit
• 奥妙(奧妙) marvelous; mysterious; profound; wonderful
• 妙趣横生(妙趣橫生) endlessly interesting; very witty
• 理微妙 a subtle and wonderful princple
• 巧妙手段 an ingenious move
• 妙在不言中 the charm lies in what is left unsaid
• 生花妙笔(生花妙筆) beautiful or talented writing
• 灵妙(靈妙) wonderful; ingenious
• 妙成就 spiritual attainment
• 妙策 a clever plan
• 美妙 beautiful; wonderful; splendid
• 妙用 skillful use; magical use
• 维妙维肖(維妙維肖) to imitate perfectly
• 婉妙 sweet; soft; lovely (of sounds and voices)
• 惟妙惟肖 to imitate to perfection; to be remarkably true to life
• 谈玄說妙(談玄说妙) to talk about mysticism
• 神妙 wonderful
• 妙探寻凶(妙探尋兇) Cluedo (board game)
• 奇妙 fantastic; wonderful
• 妙好 elaborate and beautiful
• 妙诀(妙訣) an ingenious secret method
• 佳妙 wonderful; beautiful
• 妙手回春 magical hands bring the dying back to life; miracle cure; brilliant doctor
• 玄妙 mysterious; profound; abstruse
• 妙龄(妙齡) (of a girl) in the prime of youth
• 妙趣 witty; clever; amusing
• 妙品 a fine work of art
• 妙语(妙語) witticism
• 妙处(妙處) an ideal place; a suitable location; merit; an advantage
• 巧妙 ingenious; clever
• 妙舞 an ellegant dance
• 妙语连珠(妙語連珠) sparkling with wit
• 妙手空空 petty thief ( quick fingered and vanish); empty-handed; having nothing
• 绝妙好辞(絕妙好辭) beautiful words
• 胜妙(勝妙) wonderful; beautiful
• 神妙隽美(神妙雋美) outstanding and elegant; remarkable and refined
• 徼妙 mystical
• 妙笔生花(妙筆生花) gifted or skillful writing
• 妙道 a profound principle
• 灵丹妙药(靈丹妙藥) a miraculous cure
• 高妙 masterful
• 绝妙(絕妙) exquisite

Also contained in

妙玉 、 妙喜国 、 妙清

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Truncated for common words

• 卷二十九 魏書二十九 方技傳 Volume 29: Book of Wei 29 - Biographies of fangshis and artisans Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志 — count: 23
• 第二回 Chapter 17 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 21
• 卷十七 Scroll 17 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 18
• 卷三百〇一 列傳第一百八十九 列女一 Volume 301 Biographies 189: Exemplary Women 1 History of Ming 明史 — count: 17
• 卷十一 Scroll 11 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 13
• 第二回 Chapter 78 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 12
• 卷十六 Scroll 16 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 12
• 卷114 釋老志十 Volume 114: Treatise 10 - Buddhism and Daoism Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 11
• 卷九十二 列傳第六十二 文苑 Volume 92 Biographies 62: Writers Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 11
• 卷三十四 Scroll 34 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 11

Collocations

• 妙反 (妙反) 音匹妙反 — Xunzi 荀子, 修身篇第二 Chapter 2: Cultivation — count: 7
• 要妙 (要妙) 以窮要妙之望 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷八　本經訓 Chapter 8: Base Warp — count: 6
• 清妙 (清妙) 清妙之合專易 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷三　天文訓 Chapter 3: Celestial Phenomena — count: 5
• 妙简 (妙簡) 于是制詔公卿妙简其选 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷七十九上 儒林列傳 Volume 79a: Biographies of Confucian Scholars 1 — count: 5
• 妙选 (妙選) 妙選有德之世 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷七十七 蓋諸葛劉鄭孫毌將何傳 Volume 77: Gai, Zhuge, Liu, Zheng, Sun, Wujiang and He — count: 3
• 众妙 (眾妙) 散意於眾妙之門者有年矣 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷五十一 列傳第二十一 皇甫謐 摯虞 束皙 王接 Volume 51 Biographies 21: Huangfu Mi; Zhi Yu; Shu Xi; Wang Jie — count: 3
• 字妙 (字妙) 泉字妙才 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷七十二 董卓列傳 Volume 72: Biography of Dong Zhuo — count: 3
• 特妙 (特妙) 張衡機術特妙 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷六十一 左周黃列傳 Volume 61: Biographies of Zuo, Zhou, Huang — count: 3
• 殊妙 (殊妙) 音節殊妙 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷十 魏書十一 袁張涼國田王邴管傳 Volume 10: Book of Wei 10 - Biographies of Xun Yu, Xun You, and Jia Xu — count: 3
• 妙思 (妙思) 責衡何獨妙思於機巧者也 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷五十九 張衡列傳 Volume 59: Biography of Zhang Heng — count: 3