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銘

銘

See also: 铭

Translingual

Han character

銘 (radical 167 金+6, 14 strokes, cangjie input 金弓戈口 (CNIR), four-corner 87160, composition ⿰金名)

Descendants

References

  • KangXi: page 1305, character 7
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40385
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1807, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4200, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+9298

Chinese

trad. 銘
simp. 铭

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (名) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
名 *meŋ
洺 *meŋ
眳 *meŋʔ, *meːŋʔ
詺 *meŋs
銘 *meːŋ
茗 *meːŋʔ
酩 *meːŋʔ
姳 *meːŋʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *meːŋ) : semantic 釒 ‎(“metal”) + phonetic 名 ‎(OC *meŋ) – engrave in metal. Note that 名 means “name”, hence connotations of “engrave a name in metal”.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 銘
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 銘
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 míng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ meng ›
Old
Chinese		 /*mˤeŋ/
English inscription

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 銘
Reading # 1/1
No. 9182
Phonetic
component		 名
Rime
group		 耕
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 冥
Old
Chinese		 /*meːŋ/

Definitions

銘

  1. inscribe, engrave
  2. inscription
  3. unforgettably

Compounds

  • 銘文／铭文 (míngwén)
  • 銘傳／铭传
  • 銘傳商專／铭传商专
  • 銘記／铭记
  • 銘記在心／铭记在心
  • 銘謝／铭谢
  • 銘言／铭言
  • 銘刻／铭刻 (míngkè)
  • 銘記／铭记
  • 銘牌／铭牌
  • 銘感／铭感
  • 銘肌鏤骨／铭肌镂骨
  • 刻骨銘心／刻骨铭心 (kègǔ-míngxīn)

Japanese

Kanji

銘

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. inscription

Readings

Kanji in this term
銘
めい
Grade: S
on'yomi

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 銘 ‎(meng, “inscription”).

Pronunciation

Noun

銘 ‎(hiragana めい, romaji mei)

  1. inscription

Derived terms

  • 無銘 (むめい) ‎(mumei)
  • 太刀銘 (たちめい) ‎(tachimei)
  • 刀銘 (かたなめい) ‎(katanamei)
  • 刀銘 (とうめい) ‎(tōmei)
  • 表銘 (おもてめい) ‎(omotemei)
  • 裏銘 (うらめい) ‎(uramei)
  • 二字銘 (にじめい) ‎(nijimei): (swords) an inscription of two characters
  • 長銘 (ながめい) ‎(nagamei), 長銘 (ちょうめい) ‎(chōmei): (swords) an inscription that includes some personal details about the swordsmith
  • 受領銘 (ずりょうめい) ‎(zuryōmei)
  • 折 (お)り返 (かえ)し銘 (めい) ‎(orikaeshimei)
  • 額銘 (がくめい) ‎(gakumei): (swords) an inscription where a blade is shortened and a rectangular metal piece bearing the original inscription is cut out from the removed portion and embedded in the new tang
  • 朱銘 (しゅめい) ‎(shumei)

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

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