盟

Translingual

Etymology

Historical forms of the character 盟
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Han character

盟 (radical 108 皿+8, 13 strokes, cangjie input 日月月廿 (ABBT), four-corner 6710₇, composition ⿱明皿)

References

• KangXi: page 795, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23024
• Dae Jaweon: page 1210, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2565, character 7
• Unihan data for U+76DF

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		盟

Alternative forms

• 𥁰

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): méng (meng²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mang⁴, maang⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: méng
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄥˊ
    • Wade-Giles: mêng²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: meng
    • IPA ^(key): /mɤŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: mang⁴, maang⁶
    • Yale: màhng, maahng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mang⁴, maang⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /mɐŋ²¹/, /mɑːŋ²²/

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 盟 (同盟)
Mandarin	Beijing	/məŋ³⁵/
	Harbin	/məŋ²⁴/
	Tianjin	/məŋ⁴⁵/
	Jinan	/məŋ⁴²/
	Qingdao	/məŋ⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/məŋ⁴²/
	Xi'an	/məŋ²⁴/
	Xining	/mə̃²⁴/
	Yinchuan	/məŋ⁵³/
	Lanzhou	/məñ⁵³/
	Ürümqi	/mɤŋ⁵¹/
	Wuhan	/min²¹³/
	Chengdu	/min³¹/ /moŋ³¹/
	Guiyang	/min²¹/ 老 /moŋ²¹/ 新
	Kunming	/moŋ³¹/
	Nanjing	/mən²⁴/
	Hefei	/məŋ⁵⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/məŋ¹¹/
	Pingyao	/miŋ¹³/ /məŋ¹³/
	Hohhot	/məŋ̃³¹/
Wu	Shanghai	/məŋ²³/
	Suzhou	/mən¹³/
	Hangzhou	/men²¹³/
	Wenzhou	/meŋ³¹/
Hui	Shexian	/miʌ̃⁴⁴/
	Tunxi	/man⁴⁴/
Xiang	Changsha	/min¹³/
	Xiangtan	/min¹²/
Gan	Nanchang	/min⁴⁵/
Hakka	Meixian	/men¹¹/
	Taoyuan	/men¹¹/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/mɐŋ²¹/
	Nanning	/mɐŋ²¹/
	Hong Kong	/mɐŋ²¹/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/biŋ³⁵/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/mɛiŋ⁵³/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/meiŋ²¹/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/meŋ⁵⁵/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/moŋ³¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /mˠiæŋ/, /mˠæŋ^H/▼

Rime
Character	盟	盟
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	明 (4)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	庚 (111)	庚 (109)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	II
Fanqie	武兵切	莫更切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mˠiæŋ/	/mˠæŋH/
Pan Wuyun	/mᵚiaŋ/	/mᵚaŋH/
Shao Rongfen	/miaŋ/	/maŋH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/miajŋ/	/maɨjŋH/
Li Rong	/miɐŋ/	/mɐŋH/
Wang Li	/mĭɐŋ/	/mɐŋH/
Bernard Karlgren	/mi̯ɐŋ/	/mɐŋH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	míng	mèng

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*mraŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*mraŋ/, /*mraːŋs/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	盟
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	méng
Middle Chinese	‹ mjæng ›
Old Chinese	/*mraŋ/
English	covenant
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	盟	盟
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	9189	9190
Phonetic component	明	明
Rime group	陽	陽
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	明	孟
Old Chinese	/*mraŋ/	/*mraːŋs/

Definitions

盟

1. to swear
2. oath, covenant, alliance

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Japanese

Kanji

盟

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. alliance

Readings

• Goon: みょう (myō, rare)
• Kan’on: めい (mei)
• Kun: ちかう (盟う chikau), ちかい (盟い chikai)

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Korean

Hanja

盟 • ‎(maeng) (hangeul 맹, revised maeng, McCune-Reischauer maeng, Yale mayng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

盟 (minh)

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