冥

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

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		冥

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): míng (ming²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ming⁴, ming⁵
• Min Nan (POJ): mê / mî

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: míng
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄥˊ
    • Wade-Giles: ming²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ming
    • IPA ^(key): /miŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ming⁴, ming⁵
    • Yale: mìhng, míhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ming⁴, ming⁵
    • IPA ^(key): /mɪŋ²¹/, /mɪŋ¹³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mê / mî
    • Tâi-lô: mê / mî
    • IPA (Taipei): /me²³/, /mi²³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /me¹³/, /mi¹³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (冥, reconstructed)
Character (冥), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 明 (4) Final: 青 Division: IV			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 莫經切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/meŋ/	/mieŋ/	/meŋ/	/meŋ/	/mɛjŋ/	/mieŋ/	/mɛŋ/

Old Chinese pronunciation (冥, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
冥								míng								‹ meng ›								/*mˤeŋ/								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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
冥					9197					冥					耕					0					冥					/*meːŋ/

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Japanese

Kanji

冥

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• On: めい (mei)
• Kun: くらい (kurai)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

• Hán Việt: minh, mênh, mưng

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