苗
miáo · HSK 7
Hmong or Miao ethnic group of southwest China
🌱 苗 = grass radical 艹 over field 田 = young plants sprouting in a field
The grass on top of a cultivated field gives the core sense: a sprout or seedling. By extension 苗 names the Miao (Hmong) people of southwest China and serves as the surname Miao. Sound tag: miáo rhymes with the cat sound meow.
苗 — grass radical 艹 + field 田
A pictographic-semantic compound showing young plants (艹) growing in a field (田), originally meaning 'seedling' or 'young sprout.' The meaning later extended to 'descendants' and became a surname, as well as the name for the Miao ethnic group.