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盲

盲

Translingual

Han character

盲 (radical 109 目+3, 8 strokes, cangjie input 卜女月山 (YVBU), four-corner 00601, composition ⿱亡目)

  1. blind
  2. unperceptive, shortsighted

References

  • KangXi: page 800, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23132
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1214, character 23
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2469, character 19
  • Unihan data for U+76F2

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 盲

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 盲
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 庚 (109)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 武庚切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /mˠæŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /mᵚaŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /maŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /maɨjŋ/
Li
Rong		 /mɐŋ/
Wang
Li		 /mɐŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /mɐŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 méng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 盲
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 máng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ mæng ›
Old
Chinese		 /*mˤ<r>aŋ/
English blind

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 盲
Reading # 1/1
No. 12689
Phonetic
component		 亡
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 盲
Old
Chinese		 /*mraːŋ/

Adjective

盲

  1. blind

See also

  • 聾／聋 (lóng, “deaf”), 啞／哑 (yǎ, “mute”)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

盲

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Noun

盲 ‎(hiragana めくら, romaji mekura)

  1. (dated) blindness
  2. (dated) blind person
  3. (dated) ignorance
  4. (dated) ignorant person; an ignoramus

Etymology 2

Noun

盲 ‎(hiragana めしい, romaji meshii)

  1. (archaic) Same as above.

Etymology 3

Noun

盲 ‎(hiragana もう, romaji mō)

  1. blindness
  2. blind person
Synonyms

Korean

Hanja

盲 • ‎(maeng) (hangeul 맹, revised maeng, McCune-Reischauer maeng, Yale mayng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

盲 (manh)

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  • Nôm: manh

References

  • Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
  • Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
  • Vũ Văn Kính: Đại Tự Điển Chữ Nôm , NXB Văn Nghệ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999

Etymology

Historical forms of the character 盲
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (亡) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
忙 *maːŋ
芒 *maːŋ, *maŋ
茫 *maːŋ
恾 *maːŋ
吂 *maːŋ, *maːŋs
汒 *maːŋ, *maŋs
朚 *maːŋ, *hmaːŋ, *maŋ, *mraːŋ, *mraːŋs
邙 *maːŋ, *maŋ
杗 *maːŋ, *maŋ
荒 *hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋs
肓 *hmaːŋ
衁 *hmaːŋ
巟 *hmaːŋ
詤 *hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋʔ, *hmaŋʔ
慌 *hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋʔ
謊 *hmaːŋʔ
喪 *smaːŋs, *smaːŋ
亡 *maŋ
望 *maŋ, *maŋs
莣 *maŋ
朢 *maŋ, *maŋs
鋩 *maŋ
硭 *maŋ
忘 *maŋ, *maŋs
网 *mlaŋʔ
罔 *mlaŋʔ
蛧 *maŋʔ
網 *mlaŋʔ
輞 *maŋʔ
棢 *maŋʔ
惘 *maŋʔ
菵 *maŋʔ
誷 *maŋʔ
魍 *maŋʔ
妄 *maŋs
盲 *mraːŋ
蝱 *mraːŋ
虻 *mraːŋ
氓 *mraːŋ
甿 *mraːŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *mraːŋ) : phonetic 亡 ‎(OC *maŋ) + semantic 目 ‎(“eye”) – blindness.

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