甍

甍 U+750D, 甍 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-750D ← 甌 [U+750C] CJK Unified Ideographs 甎 → [U+750E]

Translingual

Han character

甍 (Kangxi radical 98, 瓦+11, 16 strokes, Cangjie input 廿田中弓 (TWLN) or 難難廿田中 (XXTWL), four-corner 4471₇, composition ⿱⿳艹罒冖瓦(GJKV) or ⿱⿳卝罒冖瓦(HT))

1. rafters supporting roof tiles

Derived characters

• 𭳡, 𣞑, 𥌯, 𲋍, 𧂛

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 751, character 23
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21587
• Dae Jaweon: page 1159, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1429, character 7
• Unihan data for U+750D

Chinese

trad.		甍
simp. #		甍

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (夢) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
蘉	*maːŋ
瞢	*mɯːŋ, *mɯŋ, *mɯŋs
懜	*mɯːŋs, *mɯːŋ, *mɯŋ
懵	*mɯːŋs, *mɯːŋʔ
甍	*mrɯːŋ
薨	*hmɯːŋ
夢	*mɯŋ, *mɯŋs
鄸	*mɯŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *mrɯːŋ): abbreviated phonetic 夢 (OC *mɯŋ, *mɯŋs) + semantic 瓦 (“roof tile”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): méng (meng²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mang⁴
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): morng²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: méng
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄥˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: méng
    • Wade–Giles: mêng²
    • Yale: méng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: meng
    • Palladius: мэн (mɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɤŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: mang⁴
    • Yale: màhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mang⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: meng⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɐŋ²¹/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: morng²
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: mó̤ng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɒŋ¹³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: morng²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɒŋ²⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: meang

Rime
Character	甍
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	耕 (117)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	莫耕切
Baxter	meang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mˠɛŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/mᵚæŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/mɐŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/məɨjŋ/
Li Rong	/mɛŋ/
Wang Li	/mæŋ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/mæŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	méng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mang4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*mrɯːŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	甍
Reading #	1/1
No.	8991
Phonetic component	夢
Rime group	蒸
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	甍
Old Chinese	/*mrɯːŋ/

Definitions

甍

1. roof ridge beam

Compounds

• 層甍 / 层甍
• 朱瓦碧甍
• 朱甍碧瓦
• 甍標 / 甍标
• 碧瓦朱甍
• 飛甍 / 飞甍
• 鴟甍 / 鸱甍

References

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “甍”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 155.

Japanese

Kanji

甍

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. rooftop
2. tiled roof
3. tile

Readings

• Go-on: みょう (myō)
• Kan-on: もう (mō)
• Kan’yō-on: ぼう (bō)
• Kun: いらか (iraka, 甍)

References

• “^▲甍”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

Korean

Hanja

甍 • (meong) (hangeul 멍, revised meong, McCune–Reischauer mŏng, Yale meng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

甍: Hán Nôm readings: manh, mành

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