秒

HSK 4#1034 by frequencyradical 禾

miǎo["t","qt"]

second (unit of time); arc second (angular measurement unit); (coll.) instantly

Examples

一分钟有六十秒。

A minute has sixty seconds.

我失去了生命中的十五秒。

I've lost 15 seconds of my life.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.