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孟

孟

See also: 盂

Translingual

Han character

孟 (radical 39 子+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 弓木月廿 (NDBT), four-corner 17107, composition ⿱子皿)

  1. eldest brother
  2. used as a surname
  3. (figuratively) first in series
  4. (figuratively) great, eminent

Derived characters

References

See also

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 孟

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (皿) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
猛 *mraːŋʔ
艋 *mraːŋʔ
蜢 *mraːŋʔ
皿 *maŋʔ
孟 *mraːŋs

子 ‎(“child; son”) + phonetic 皿 (OC *maŋʔ)

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 孟
Mandarin Beijing /məŋ⁵¹/
Harbin /məŋ⁵³/
Tianjin /məŋ⁵³/
Jinan /məŋ²¹/
Qingdao /məŋ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /məŋ³¹²/
Xi'an /məŋ⁴⁴/
Xining /mə̃²¹³/
Yinchuan /məŋ¹³/
Lanzhou /mə̃n¹³/
Ürümqi /mɤŋ²¹³/
Wuhan /moŋ³⁵/
Chengdu /moŋ¹³/
Guiyang /moŋ²¹³/
Kunming /moŋ²¹²/
Nanjing /mən⁴⁴/
Hefei /məŋ⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /məŋ⁴⁵/
Pingyao /məŋ³⁵/
Hohhot /mə̃ŋ⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /mã²³/
Suzhou /mã³¹/
Hangzhou /moŋ¹³/
Wenzhou /miɛ²²/
Hui Shexian /mʌ̃²²/
Tunxi /man¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /moŋ⁵⁵/
Xiangtan /mən⁵⁵/
Gan Nanchang /mɛn²¹/
/muŋ²¹/
Hakka Meixian /men⁵³/
Taoyuan /men⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /maŋ²²/
Nanning /mɐŋ²²/
Hong Kong /maŋ²²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /biŋ⁵³/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /maiŋ²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /maiŋ³³/
Shantou (Min Nan) /meŋ³⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /moŋ³⁵/
Rime
Character 孟
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 庚 (109)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 莫更切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /mˠæŋH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /mᵚaŋH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /maŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /maɨjŋH/
Li
Rong		 /mɐŋH/
Wang
Li		 /mɐŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /mɐŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 mèng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 孟
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 mèng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ mængH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*mˤraŋ-s/
English eldest, great

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 孟
Reading # 1/1
No. 9152
Phonetic
component		 皿
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 孟
Old
Chinese		 /*mraːŋs/

Definitions

孟

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Japanese

Kanji

孟

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

孟 • ‎(maeng, mang) (hangeul 맹, 망, revised maeng, mang, McCune-Reischauer maeng, mang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

孟 (mạnh)

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Zhuang

Pronoun

孟

  1. Sawndip form of mwngz.

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