TSUMUGU · TOCFL B2 (est.) · 字
妙
ㄇㄧㄠˋ · miào
adj — wonderful, subtle, ingenious
字源 FORM — what the parts do
{sh,m}ITshǎo → miào — the initial and tone both shift
女 to the left, 少 to the right carrying the sound, worn far from shǎo to miào. The graph names the exquisite, the cleverness too fine to spell out: 美妙、巧妙.
故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by
一筆一畫都細到極處（少）——妙到沒法多說一個字。
Every stroke worked down to the finest (少) — so 妙 that there is nothing left to add.
字源記憶法
意 · Meanings
(本義)美妙— exquisite, fine常用
→巧妙— clever, ingenious
⇒奧妙— subtle, profound
(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension
關 · Related
少shǎothe sound donor — 妙 sets a woman to its left玅miàothe old variant — 玄 in place of , the same fineness