孟

See also: 盂

Translingual

Han character

孟 (radical 39 子+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 弓木月廿 (NDBT), four-corner 1710₇, composition ⿱子皿)

1. first in series
2. great, eminent
3. used as a surname

Derived characters

• 猛

References

• KangXi: page 278, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6960
• Dae Jaweon: page 546, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1013, character 3
• Unihan data for U+5B5F
• Chinese surname history: Meng

See also

• 盂

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Chinese

		-
simp. and trad.		孟

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mèng (meng⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): maang⁶
• Min Nan (POJ): Bēng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: mèng
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄥˋ
    • Wade-Giles: mêng⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: menq
    • IPA ^(key): /mɤŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: maang⁶
    • Yale: maahng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: maang⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /mɑːŋ²²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Bēng
    • Tâi-lô: Bīng
    • IPA (Taipei): /bɪŋ³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /bɪŋ²²/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (孟, reconstructed)
Character (孟), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 明 (4) Final: 庚 Division: II			Openness: Open Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 莫更切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/mɣæŋH/	/mɐŋH/	/mɐŋH/	/mɯaŋH/	/maɨjŋH/	/mɐŋH/	/maŋH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (孟, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
孟								mèng								‹ mængH ›								/*mˤraŋ-s/								eldest, great
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
孟					9152					皿					陽					0					孟					/*mraːŋs/

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Japanese

Kanji

孟

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

• Goon: みょう (myō), もう (mō)
• Kan’on: ぼう (bō), もう (mō)
• Kan’yōon: まん (man)
• Kun: かしら (kashira), はじめ (hajime)

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Korean

Hanja

孟 (maeng, mang) (hangeul 맹, 망, revised maeng, mang, McCune-Reischauer maeng, mang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

孟 (mạnh)

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