明

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See also: 日月

Translingual[edit]

Stroke order
明-bw.png

Etymology[edit]

Historical forms of the character 明
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
明-oracle.svg 明-bronze.svg 明-bigseal.svg 明-seal.svg

The traditional etymology follows the modern form in finding Ideogrammic compound (會意): 日 ‎(“sun”) + 月 ‎(“moon”). However, the etymology may be somewhat less simple, as alleged older forms of the character show the moon shining through a window (朙).

Han character[edit]

明 (radical 72 日+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 日月 (AB), four-corner 67020, composition ⿰日月)

References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 491, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13805
  • Dae Jaweon: page 852, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1491, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+660E

Chinese[edit]

simp. and trad.
 明

Alternative forms[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Rime
Character 明
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 庚 (111)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 武兵切
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
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 明
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 míng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ mjæng ›
Old
Chinese		 /*mraŋ/
English bright

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 明
Reading # 1/1
No. 9188
Phonetic
component		 明
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 明
Old
Chinese		 /*mraŋ/

Definitions[edit]

明

  1. bright, light, brilliant
  2. clear
  3. tomorrow
  4. next, following
  5. to understand
    講明／讲明 (jiǎngmíng, “to explain”)
    如果你唔明就要講畀我聽。 [Cantonese, trad.]
    如果你唔明就要讲畀我听。 [Cantonese, simp.]
    Jyu4 gwo2 nei5 m4 ming4 zau6 jiu3 gong2 bei2 ngo5 teng1. [Jyutping]
    If you don't understand then you have to tell me.
  6. Ming Dynasty
  7. A surname​, listed as #111 on the Baijiaxing

Compounds[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

See also:
明

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. clear
  2. tomorrow
  3. bright

Readings[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

明 ‎(hiragana あきら, romaji Akira)

  1. A male given name

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

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

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Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

明 (minh)

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