銘

See also 铭

Translingual

simplified	铭
traditional	銘

Etymology

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

Han character

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

1. inscribe, engrave
2. unforgettably

Descendants

• 铭

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

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Cantonese

Hanzi

銘 (simplified 铭, Yale ming4)

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Japanese

Kanji

銘 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: めい (mei), みょう (myō)
• Kun: しるす (shirusu)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

銘 (simplified 铭, pinyin diào (diao4), míng (ming2), qiāo (qiao1), tiáo (tiao2), yào (yao4), Wade-Giles tiao⁴, ming², ch'iao¹, t'iao², yao⁴)