秒
miǎo HSK5

second (time), beard of grain or corn

秒 miǎo
second nounmeasure word
measure word for time equal to 1/60th of a minute

他沉默了三秒。

tā chén​mò le sān miǎo.

He was quiet for three seconds.

instantly
(colloquial) instantly; within a second; in an instant
beard of grain
(bound form) the awn or beard of grain such as wheat or rice
[length]
(archaic) ancient unit of length equal to 0.0001 寸 cùn
arc second
unit of angular measurement equal to 1/60th of an arc minute

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Frequency
Character
Written text
2,028th most common 35.3 per million
Movie subtitles
1,106th most common 83.8 per million appears in 31% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
94.6 per million appears in 26% of films
Written text
117.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+79D2

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)