独苗
dú miáo
Pinyin

Definition

独苗
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dú miáo
  1. only child
  2. sole scion

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

yì miáo
  1. 1 vaccine
Miáo
  1. 1 Hmong or Miao ethnic group of southwest China
  2. 2 surname Miao
miáo tiao
  1. 1 (of a woman) slim
  2. 2 slender
  3. 3 graceful
yà miáo zhù zhǎng
  1. 1 see 拔苗助長|拔苗助长[bá miáo zhù zhǎng]
shù miáo
  1. 1 sapling
huǒ miáo
  1. 1 flame
hé miáo
  1. 1 seedling (of rice or other grain)
  2. 2 CL:棵[kē]
Miáo Pǔ
  1. 1 Miao Pu (1977-), PRC actress
miáo zi
  1. 1 young successor
  2. 2 seedling
  3. 3 sapling
Miáo jiā
  1. 1 see 苗族[Miáo zú]
Miáo zú
  1. 1 Hmong or Miao ethnic group of southwest China
miáo tou
  1. 1 first signs
  2. 2 development (of a situation)
suàn miáo
  1. 1 garlic shoot
  2. 2 garlic sprouts
dòu miáo
  1. 1 pea shoots
  2. 2 bean seedling
chū miáo
  1. 1 to sprout
  2. 2 to come out (of seedling)
  3. 3 to bud
kǎ jiè miáo
  1. 1 BCG vaccine
  2. 2 bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccine
nèn miáo
  1. 1 seedling
  2. 2 soft shoots
  3. 3 sprout
yòu miáo
  1. 1 young sprout
  2. 2 bud
  3. 3 sapling
  4. 4 seedling
dú miáo
  1. 1 only child
  2. 2 sole scion
yāng miáo
  1. 1 seedling

Idioms (2)

互别苗头
hù bié miáo tou
  1. 1 to compete with (idiom) (Tw)
  2. 2 to pit oneself against
拔苗助长
bá miáo zhù zhǎng
  1. 1 to spoil things through excessive enthusiasm (idiom)

Sample Sentences

你看吧,1979年,国家出政策了,1980年开始,实行计划生育了,兄弟姐妹没有了,只剩一棵独苗苗了。
nǐ kàn ba ,1979 nián ,guójiā chū zhèngcè le ,yījiǔbālíng nián kāishǐ ,shíxíng jìhuàshēngyù le ,xiōngdì jiěmèi méiyǒu le ,zhī shèng yī kē dúmiáomiao le 。
Look, in 1979, the country came up with a policy which was launched in 1980, to implement family planning. So without brothers and sisters, only us only children remained.