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Definition 2024


See also: 日月

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

(radical 72 +4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 日月 (AB), four-corner 67020, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 491, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13805
  • Dae Jaweon: page 852, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1491, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+660E

Chinese

simp. and trad.
alt. forms

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*mraːŋ, *qʰɯd
*mraŋ
*mraŋ, *mraːŋs
*mreːŋ
*ʔmraːŋʔ

Traditionally interpreted as an ideogrammic compound (會意) : (“sun”) + (“moon”). However, the etymology may be more complex, as older forms of the character show the moon shining through a window ().

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (4)
Final () (111)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/mˠiæŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/mᵚiaŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/miaŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/miajŋ/
Li
Rong
/miɐŋ/
Wang
Li
/mĭɐŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/mi̯ɐŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
míng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
míng
Middle
Chinese
‹ mjæng ›
Old
Chinese
/*mraŋ/
English bright

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 9188
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*mraŋ/

Definitions

  1. bright; light; brilliant
  2. clear
  3. tomorrow
  4. next; following
  5. to understand
    /    jiǎngmíng   to explain
  6. Ming Dynasty
  7. A surname, listed as #111 on the Baijiaxing

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. clear
  2. tomorrow
  3. bright

Readings

Compounds

Derived terms

Proper noun

(hiragana あきら, romaji Akira)

  1. A male given name

Korean

Hanja

(myeong) (hangeul , revised myeong, McCune-Reischauer myŏng, Yale myeng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(minh)

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