蒙

See also: 懞

Translingual

Han character

蒙 (radical 140 艸+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 廿月一人 (TBMO), four-corner 4423₂, composition ⿱艹冡)

1. to cover
2. ignorant
3. suffer
4. fourth hexagram of the I Ching
5. Mongolia - radical composition becomes 'grass(land) family'
6. a surname

Derived characters

• 懞 檬 朦 矇

References

• KangXi: page 1048, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31555
• Dae Jaweon: page 1509, character 22
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3271, character 4
• Unihan data for U+8499

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		蒙

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): méng, měng, mēng (meng², meng³, meng¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄥˊ, ㄇㄥˇ, ㄇㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mung⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: méng
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄥˊ
    • Wade-Giles: mêng²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: meng
    • IPA ^(key): /mɤŋ³⁵/

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  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: měng
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄥˇ
    • Wade-Giles: mêng³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: meeng
    • IPA ^(key): /mɤŋ²¹⁴/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: mēng
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄥ
    • Wade-Giles: mêng¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mheng
    • IPA ^(key): /mɤŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: mung⁴
    • Yale: mùhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mung⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /mʊŋ²¹/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (蒙, reconstructed)
Character (蒙), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 明 (4) Final: 東 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 莫紅切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/muŋ/	/muŋ/	/muŋ/	/muŋ/	/məwŋ/	/muŋ/	/muŋ/

Old Chinese pronunciation (蒙, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
蒙								méng								‹ muwng ›								/*mˤoŋ/								cover (v.)
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
蒙					8969					冡					東					0					蒙					/*moːŋ/

Definitions

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Compounds

• mēng
  • 蒙哄
  • 蒙蒙黑
  • 蒙蒙亮
  • 蒙骗
  • 蒙事
  • 蒙头转向
• méng
  • 蒙蔽
  • 蒙尘
  • 蒙垢
  • 蒙汗药
  • 蒙哄
  • 蒙混
  • 蒙胧
  • 蒙昧
  • 蒙昧主义
  • 蒙蒙
  • 蒙难
  • 蒙求
  • 蒙受
  • 蒙太奇
  • 蒙学
  • 蒙药
  • 蒙冤
  • 蒙在鼓里
• měng
  • 蒙古
  • 蒙古包
  • 蒙古大夫
  • 蒙古人种
  • 蒙古族
  • 蒙文
  • 蒙族

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Japanese

Kanji

蒙

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

• On: ぼう (bō), もう (mō)
• Kun: おおう (oou), こうむる (koumuru), くらい (kurai)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [moː]

Pronoun

蒙 (hiragana もう, romaji mō)

1. humble first-person personal pronoun; I, me
   • c. 1368-1375 Taiheiki (preface)

     蒙窃採古今之変化、察安危之来由、覆而無外天之徳也。

References

• 1960 May 2, Tanji Gotō; Saburō Kamada, Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 34: Taiheiki 1 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4-0006-0034-6:

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Korean

Hanja

蒙 (mong) (hangeul 몽, revised mong, McCune-Reischauer mong, Yale mong)

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Vietnamese

Han character

蒙 (mông, mong, mòng, mỏng, muống)

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