尛

See also: 小

尛	U+5C1B, 尛 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5C1B

← 尚
[U+5C1A]

CJK Unified Ideographs

尜 →
[U+5C1C]

Translingual

Han character

尛 (Kangxi radical 42, 小+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 火火火 (FFF) or 難火火火 (XFFF), four-corner 9099₀, composition ⿱⿻丨八⿰小小(G) or ⿱小⿰小小(T))

Derived characters

𫈳

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 297, character 14
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 7498
Dae Jaweon: page 592, character 5
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 564, character 8
Unihan data for U+5C1B

Chinese

Etymology 1

Glyph origin

Triplication of 小 (“small”), as 麼 / 么 means "tiny".

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 尛 – see 麼. (This character is an ancient form of 麼).

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.		尛

Glyph origin

Triplication of 小 (“small”). In modern Taiwanese Mandarin slang, it functions as a graphical pun on the phrase 三小 (sānxiǎo, literally “three smalls”), which is a Mandarin phonetic approximation of Hokkien 啥潲 (sáⁿ-siâu, “what the hell”).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): sānxiǎo

(Zhuyin): ㄙㄢㄒㄧㄠˇ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: sānxiǎo
  - Zhuyin: ㄙㄢㄒㄧㄠˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: sansiǎo
  - Wade–Giles: san¹-hsiao³
  - Yale: sān-syǎu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sansheau
  - Palladius: саньсяо (sanʹsjao)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sän⁵⁵ ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

Definitions

尛

(Taiwan, Internet slang) alternative form of 三小 (sānxiǎo, “what the hell”)