Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 秒


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Meaning

second (of time)

Pronunciation

miǎo

Explanation

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

Mnemonic

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

Radicals

grain(plant of the grain with one spike )
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

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