盲

盲 U+76F2, 盲 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-76F2 ← 盱 [U+76F1] CJK Unified Ideographs 盳 → [U+76F3]

See also: 𥇋

Translingual

Han character

盲 (radical 109 目+3, 8 strokes, cangjie input 卜女月山 (YVBU), four-corner 0060₁, composition ⿱亡目)

1. blind
2. unperceptive, shortsighted

References

• KangXi: page 800, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23132
• Dae Jaweon: page 1214, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2469, character 19
• Unihan data for U+76F2

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		盲
alt. forms		𥇋

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 盲
Large seal script	Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (亡) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
忙	*maːŋ
芒	*maːŋ, *maŋ
茫	*maːŋ
恾	*maːŋ
吂	*maːŋ, *maːŋs
汒	*maːŋ, *maŋs
朚	*maːŋ, *hmaːŋ, *maŋ, *mraːŋ, *mraːŋs
邙	*maːŋ, *maŋ
杗	*maːŋ, *maŋ
荒	*hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋs
肓	*hmaːŋ
衁	*hmaːŋ
巟	*hmaːŋ
詤	*hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋʔ, *hmaŋʔ
慌	*hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋʔ
謊	*hmaːŋʔ
喪	*smaːŋs, *smaːŋ
亡	*maŋ
望	*maŋ, *maŋs
莣	*maŋ
朢	*maŋ, *maŋs
鋩	*maŋ
硭	*maŋ
忘	*maŋ, *maŋs
网	*mlaŋʔ
罔	*mlaŋʔ
蛧	*maŋʔ
網	*mlaŋʔ
輞	*maŋʔ
棢	*maŋʔ
惘	*maŋʔ
菵	*maŋʔ
誷	*maŋʔ
魍	*maŋʔ
妄	*maŋs
盲	*mraːŋ
蝱	*mraːŋ
虻	*mraːŋ
氓	*mraːŋ
甿	*mraːŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *mraːŋ): phonetic 亡 (OC *maŋ) + semantic 目 (“eye”) – blindness.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): máng (mang²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄤˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): maang⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): bông / mê / mî / mêe / mô͘

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: máng
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄤˊ
    • Wade-Giles: mang²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mang
    • IPA ^(key): /mɑŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: maang⁴
    • Yale: màahng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: maang⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: mang⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /mɑːŋ²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bông
    • Tâi-lô: bông
    • Phofsit Daibuun: boong
    • IPA (Xiamen): /bɔŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /bɔŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /bɔŋ¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /bɔŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /bɔŋ²³/
  • (Hokkien: Kaohsiung)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mê
    • Tâi-lô: mê
    • Phofsit Daibuun: mee
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /mẽ²³/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Taipei, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mî
    • Tâi-lô: mî
    • Phofsit Daibuun: mii
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /mĩ²⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /mĩ²⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /mĩ²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mêe
    • Tâi-lô: mêe
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /mɛ̃¹³/
  • (Hokkien: mainstream Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mô͘
    • Tâi-lô: môo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: moo
    • IPA (Taipei): /mɔ̃²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /mɔ̃²³/

Note:

• bông - literary;
• mê/mî/mêe - vernacular.

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• Middle Chinese: /mˠæŋ/▼

Rime
Character	盲
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	庚 (109)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	武庚切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mˠæŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/mᵚaŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/maŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/maɨjŋ/
Li Rong	/mɐŋ/
Wang Li	/mɐŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/mɐŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	méng

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*mˤ<r>aŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*mraːŋ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	盲
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	máng
Middle Chinese	‹ mæng ›
Old Chinese	/*mˤ<r>aŋ/
English	blind
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	盲
Reading #	1/1
No.	12689
Phonetic component	亡
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	盲
Old Chinese	/*mraːŋ/

Adjective

盲

1. blind

See also

• 聾／聋 (lóng, “deaf”), 啞／哑 (yǎ, “mute”)

Compounds

• 導盲犬／导盲犬 (dǎomángquǎn)
• 導盲道／导盲道
• 文盲 (wénmáng)
• 盲人 (mángrén)

• 盲人按摩 (mángrén ànmó)
• 盲人路
• 盲公鏡／盲公镜 (mánggōngjìng)
• 盲目 (mángmù)

• 盲腸／盲肠 (mángcháng)
• 盲腸炎／盲肠炎 (mángchángyán)
• 色盲 (sèmáng)

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Japanese

Kanji

盲

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• Goon: みょう (myō)
• Kan’on: もう (mō)
• Kun: めくら (mekura), くらい (kurai), めしい (meshii)

Compounds

• 文盲
• 色盲
• 盲人
• 盲牌

• 盲学校
• 盲信
• 盲点
• 盲従

• 盲啞 (盲唖)
• 盲動
• 盲愛
• 盲導犬

• 盲鰻
• 盲目

Etymology 1

Noun

盲 (hiragana めくら, rōmaji mekura)

1. (dated) blindness
2. (dated) blind person
3. (dated) ignorance
4. (dated) ignorant person; an ignoramus

Etymology 2

Noun

盲 (hiragana めしい, rōmaji meshii)

1. (archaic) Same as above.

Etymology 3

Noun

盲 (hiragana もう, rōmaji mō)

1. blindness
2. blind person

Synonyms

• 盲目 (もうもく) (mōmoku) (1)
• 盲人 (もうじん) (mōjin) (2)

Antonyms

• 晴眼 (せいがん) (seigan) (1)
• 晴眼者 (せいがんしゃ) (seigansha) (2)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

盲 (manh)

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• Nôm: manh

References

• Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
• Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
• Vũ Văn Kính: Đại Tự Điển Chữ Nôm, NXB Văn Nghệ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999