秒 — second

Grade 3 kanji · 9 strokes · on'yomi byou.

Grain (禾) + small (少) — a tiny sliver of time, as small as a grain.

Example words

• 一秒 — ichibyou — one second
• 秒針 — byoushin — second hand

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