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U+9CF4, 鳴
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9CF4

[U+9CF3]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+9CF5]

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

(Kangxi radical 196, +3, 14 strokes, cangjie input 口竹日火 (RHAF), four-corner 67027, composition )

References[edit]

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1482, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46672
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2014, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4615, character 17
  • Unihan data for U+9CF4

Chinese[edit]

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin[edit]

Ideogrammic compound (會意会意) : (mouth) + (bird) – to cry (of birds).

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mriŋ (sound; noise; animal cry); cognate with (OC *reːŋ, “bell”), (OC *sreŋ), Burmese မြည် (mrany, to make a sound) (Schuessler, 2007; STEDT).

Pronunciation[edit]



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (4)
Final () (111)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter mjaeng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/mˠiæŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/mᵚiaŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/miaŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/miajŋ/
Li
Rong
/miɐŋ/
Wang
Li
/mĭɐŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/mi̯ɐŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
míng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
ming4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
míng
Middle
Chinese
‹ mjæng ›
Old
Chinese
/*m.reŋ/
English cry (of birds or animals)

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 9216
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*mreŋ/

Definitions[edit]

  1. (of birds, animals and insects) to cry, to call
      ―  niǎo míng  ―  birds cry
  2. (of other kinds of noises) to make a sound
      ―  léimíng  ―  to be thunderous
      ―  ěrmíng  ―  tinnitus
  3. (literary, or in compounds) to express; to voice
      ―  míngyuān  ―  to voice grievances
    不平不平  ―  míngbùpíng  ―  to cry out against injustice
  4. a surname

Synonyms[edit]

  • (to express):

Compounds[edit]

References[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. a cry; crying

Readings[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Synonyms[edit]

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

(eumhun (ul myeong))

  1. Hanja form? of (cry of bird or animal).
  2. Hanja form? of (make sound).

Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

: Hán Nôm readings: minh, mắng, mằng

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