What 秒 means
It names a time unit: one second.
Mandarin reads it miǎo (third tone, falling then rising); Japanese reads it byō. The Shuowen Jiezi, an early Chinese dictionary completed around 100 CE, defines the older grain-awn sense. It treats 禾 as the meaning part and 少 as the sound part; that definition does not date the time unit.
Neutral for measured seconds; emphatic in Chinese compounds about speed.
Who writes 秒
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Related characters
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CJK Unified Ideograph-676A
Shares the fine/small semantic field linked to 秒’s older sense “very small.”
CJK Unified Ideograph-7707
Shares the fine/small semantic field linked to 秒’s older sense “very small.”
CJK Unified Ideograph-6E3A
Shares the fine/small semantic field linked to 秒’s older sense “very small.”
CJK Unified Ideograph-5999
Shares the fine/small semantic field linked to 秒’s older sense “very small.”
Combination ideas
2Chinese: reply immediately; no literal one-second timer is implied.
Chinese: defeat instantly, or buy a sale item immediately.
Questions people ask
1Why does 秒 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find 秒
- Search it as
- miao · miao3 · byou · seconds · 秒回 · 秒杀
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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秒CSS
\79D2Mandarin pinyin
With pinyin input active, type miao and choose 秒 from the candidates; other characters share that pronunciation.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
秒
HTML hex
秒
CSS content
content: "\79D2";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E7%A7%92
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.