Chinese Vocabulary
秒
second (of time)
秒
miǎo3rd tone
- Pinyin
- miǎo
- Strokes
- 9
- In episodes
- 1
Stroke order for 秒
秒 is written with 9 strokes. The animation replays automatically.
Usage
一分，有六十秒。
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秒 appears in 1 Fluentide podcast episode at natural native speed. Each sentence plays at the easiest difficulty it exists in — switch it to hear the same moment at your level, with full pinyin and English throughout.
很多钟，一个月会差十几秒。
Lots of clocks are off by more than ten seconds a month.
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