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冥

冥

冥 U+51A5, 冥
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-51A5
← 冤
[U+51A4] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 冦 →
[U+51A6]

Translingual

Han character

冥 (radical 14 冖+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 月日卜金 (BAYC), four-corner 37800, composition ⿳冖日六)

  1. dark, gloomy, night
  2. deep, profound

References

  • KangXi: page 130, character 28
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1588
  • Dae Jaweon: page 293, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 304, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+51A5

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 冥

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (冥) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
瞑 *meːn, *meːns, *meːŋ
嫇 *mreːŋ, *meːŋ, *meːŋʔ
慏 *meŋʔ
冥 *meːŋ
榠 *meːŋ
鄍 *meːŋ
溟 *meːŋ, *meːŋʔ
螟 *meːŋ
猽 *meːŋ
蓂 *meːŋ, *meːɡ
覭 *meːŋ, *meːɡ
暝 *meːŋ, *meːŋs
幎 *meːɡ
幂 *meːɡ
塓 *meːɡ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 冥
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 青 (125)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 莫經切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /meŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /meŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /mɛŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /mɛjŋ/
Li
Rong		 /meŋ/
Wang
Li		 /mieŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /mieŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 míng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 冥
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 míng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ meng ›
Old
Chinese		 /*mˤeŋ/
English dark

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 冥
Reading # 1/1
No. 9197
Phonetic
component		 冥
Rime
group		 耕
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 冥
Old
Chinese		 /*meːŋ/

Definitions

冥

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Compounds

  • 冥佑
  • 冥具
  • 冥冥
  • 冥冥中
  • 冥冥之中
  • 冥司
  • 冥器 (míngqì)
  • 冥報／冥报
  • 冥壽／冥寿
  • 冥契
  • 冥奧／冥奥
  • 冥婚
  • 冥子裡／冥子里
  • 冥寂
  • 冥寶／冥宝
  • 冥府
  • 冥思
  • 冥思苦想
  • 冥思苦索
  • 冥想 (míngxiǎng)
  • 冥搜
  • 冥數／冥数
  • 冥會／冥会
  • 冥河
  • 冥漠
  • 冥漠君
  • 冥濛／冥蒙
  • 冥王星 (Míngwángxīng)
  • 冥童
  • 冥籍
  • 冥紙／冥纸
  • 冥茫
  • 冥蒙
  • 冥行
  • 冥行擿埴
  • 冥衣
  • 冥誕／冥诞
  • 冥資／冥资
  • 冥途 (míngtú)
  • 冥鈔／冥钞
  • 冥錢／冥钱
  • 冥鏹
  • 冥靈／冥灵
  • 冥頑／冥顽
  • 冥頑不靈／冥顽不灵
  • 冥鴻／冥鸿
  • 冥默
  • 北冥
  • 幽冥
  • 幽冥地府
  • 幽冥戒
  • 悄冥冥
  • 悄悄冥冥
  • 晦冥
  • 杳冥
  • 沉冥
  • 混冥
  • 渺渺冥冥
  • 玄冥
  • 窅冥
  • 窈冥
  • 窈窈冥冥
  • 西冥
  • 邈冥冥
  • 青冥
  • 風雨晦冥／风雨晦冥
  • 鴻飛冥冥／鸿飞冥冥

References

Japanese

Kanji

冥

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. dark

Readings

Korean

Hanja

冥 • ‎(myeong) (hangeul 명, revised myeong, McCune-Reischauer myŏng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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