夢

See also: 梦

Translingual

shinjitai	夢
simplified	梦
traditional	夢

Han character

夢 (radical 36 夕+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 廿田中弓 (TWLN), four-corner 4420₇, composition ⿱⿳艹⺫冖夕)

1. dream
2. visionary
3. wishful

References

• KangXi: page 247, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5801
• Dae Jaweon: page 492, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 864, character 19
• Unihan data for U+5922

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Chinese

		-
trad.		夢
simp.		梦

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mèng (meng⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mung⁶
• Min Nan (POJ): bāng / bōng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: mèng
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄥˋ
    • Wade-Giles: mêng⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: menq
    • IPA ^(key): /mɤŋ⁵¹/

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: mung⁶
    • Yale: muhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mung⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /mʊŋ²²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bāng / bōng
    • Tâi-lô: bāng / bōng
    • IPA (Taipei): /baŋ³³/, /bɔŋ³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /baŋ²²/, /bɔŋ²²/
  • Note: bāng - vernacular, bōng - literary.

Middle Chinese pronunciation (夢, reconstructed)
Character (夢), Pronunciation 1/2
Initial: 明 (4) Final: 東 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 莫中切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/mɨuŋ/	/mi̯uŋ/	/miuŋ/	/miuŋ/	/muwŋ/	/mĭuŋ/	/miuŋ/
Character (夢), Pronunciation 2/2
Initial: 明 (4) Final: 東 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 莫鳳切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/mɨuŋH/	/mi̯uŋH/	/miuŋH/	/miuŋH/	/muwŋH/	/mĭuŋH/	/miuŋH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (夢, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
夢								mèng								‹ mjuwngH ›								/*C.məŋ-s/								dream
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
夢					8996					夢					蒸					0					瞢					/*mɯŋ/
夢					8998					夢					蒸					0										/*mɯŋs/

Noun

夢

1. dream

   我今朝發咗個夢，係關於你嘅。喺夢裡面我見到你同我一齊玩器械。 [Cantonese, trad.]

   我今朝发咗个梦，系关于你嘅。喺梦里面我见到你同我一齐玩器械。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   Ngo⁵ gam¹ ziu¹ faat³ zo² go³ mung⁶ , hai⁶ gwaan¹ jyu¹ nei⁵ ge³. Hai² mung⁶ leoi⁵ min⁶ ngo⁵ gin³ dou³ nei⁵ tung⁴ ngo⁵ jat¹ cai⁴ waan⁴ hei³ haai⁶. [Jyutping]

   This morning I had a dream, it was about you. In the dream I saw us playing the equipment together.

Derived terms

• 惡夢／恶梦
• 夢遺／梦遗
• 夢遊／梦游
• 夢魘／梦魇
• 夢寐／梦寐
• 發夢／发梦
• 濕夢／湿梦
• 白日夢／白日梦
• 夢見／梦见
• 夢想／梦想

References

• (Mandarin) "夢" (in Cantonese/English), Cantodict. URL accessed on 2010-09-22.
• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

Kanji

夢

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: む (mu)
• Kan’on: ぼう (bō)
• Kun: ゆめ (yume), くらい (kurai), ゆめみる (yumemiru)

Compounds

• 悪夢 (あくむ, akumu)

Etymology 1

/ime₂/: *[iməj] > [ime]. Compound of noun i (“sleep”) and me (“eye”).

Noun

夢 (hiragana いめ, romaji ime)

1. (archaic) dream

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term

夢

ゆめ Grade: 5

kun'yomi

From earlier ime.

Noun

夢 (hiragana ゆめ, romaji yume)

1. dream

See also

• 悪夢 (akumu)

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Korean

Hanja

夢 (mong) (hangeul 몽, revised mong, McCune-Reischauer mong)

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Vietnamese

Han character

夢 (mộng, mọng, mống, mồng, mòng, muống)

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References

• Nom Foundation