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眇 (miǎo) is a phono-semantic compound that combines the radical 目 (mù, 'eye') with 少 (shǎo, 'few, little'), which also suggests the pronunciation. The components directly convey the idea of something too small for the eye to perceive, giving the character an original sense of minuteness. Over time, this extended to meanings like tiny, distant, or insignificant, and it also came to denote blindness in one eye, a condition where vision is reduced.
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