Definition
渺 has three distinct but related senses: ① describing a vast expanse of water (often reduplicated as 渺渺); ② describing something distant and indistinct, as in 渺茫 ('remote and uncertain'); ③ meaning 'tiny, insignificant', as in 渺小. Context determines which sense applies — the water sense appears in literary descriptions, while the smallness sense is common in abstract discussions.
adjective
vast and boundless (especially of water)distant and indistinctremotetinyinsignificant
Examples
- 渺渺，。Yānbō miǎomiǎo, yí wàng wú jì.The misty waters stretch vast and boundless as far as the eye can see.
- ，。Xīwàng yǐjīng hěn miǎo máng le, dàn tā hái zài jiānchí.Hope is already very remote and uncertain, but he still persists.
- 。Gèrén de lìliàng zài lìshǐ chánghé zhōng xiǎnde shífēn miǎo xiǎo.Individual power appears extremely insignificant in the long river of history.
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