MEANING/意义
      
  • miǎo
      
    sound for pinyin
      
      1
      
    second
    Type quantifier/量词  
        
      2
      
    unit of time; unit of angle or arc equivalent to one sixtieth of a degree; second (of time) 
    Type classifier/量词; quantifier/量词  
        
EXAMPLES/列句
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    qíng géi wǒ yì miǎo zhōng .
      
    sound for pinyin
    Please give me one second.

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    bái mǐ sài pǎo -- fēn miǎo bì zhēng
      
    sound for pinyin
    to make the best of one's time; the hundred-meter dash--to seize every minute and second
COMBINATIONS/组合
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    miáo biǎo
      
    sound for pinyin
    stopwatch

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    miǎo zhōng
      
    sound for pinyin
    second (always used after a number) 

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    miǎo shā
      
    sound for pinyin
    finish off or win within a second

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    miǎo zhēn
      
    sound for pinyin
    second hand (on a clock or watch) 

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    háo miǎo
      
    sound for pinyin
    milisecond

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    méi miǎo
      
    sound for pinyin
    every second

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    yì miǎo
      
    sound for pinyin
    a second; (time)  one second

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    sān miǎo qū
      
    sound for pinyin
    low post (basketball, area in the front court near the basket) 
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