盲

See also: 𥇋

Translingual

Han character

盲 (Kangxi 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 Dictionary: page 800, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23132
• Dae Jaweon: page 1214, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2469, character 19
• Unihan data for U+76F2

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Chinese

trad.		盲
simp. #		盲
alternative forms		𥇋

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 盲
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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／形声, OC *mraːŋ) : phonetic 亡 (OC *maŋ) + semantic 目 (“eye”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): máng (mang²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄤˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): maang⁴
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): bông / mê / mî / mêe / mô͘

  (Teochew, Peng'im): mang⁵ / mêng⁵ / mê⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: máng
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄤˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: máng
    • Wade–Giles: mang²
    • Yale: máng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mang
    • Palladius: ман (man)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɑŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: maang⁴
    • Yale: màahng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: maang⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: mang⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /maːŋ²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bông
    • Tâi-lô: bông
    • Phofsit Daibuun: boong
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /bɔŋ¹³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou, 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, Taipei, Xiamen): /mĩ²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mêe
    • Tâi-lô: mêe
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /mɛ̃¹³/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mô͘
    • Tâi-lô: môo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: moo
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /mɔ̃²³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /mɔ̃²⁴/

Note:

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

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: mang⁵ / mêng⁵ / mê⁵
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: mâng / mêng / mê
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /maŋ⁵⁵/, /meŋ⁵⁵/, /me⁵⁵/

Note:

• mang5/mêng5 - literary;
• mê5 - vernacular (dialectal usage - 青盲, 雀盲).

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• Middle Chinese: maeng

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
Baxter	maeng
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
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mang4

• 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	/*mˁ<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/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 盲

1. blind

See also

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

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Japanese

Kanji

盲

(Jōyō kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: みょう (myō)^{←みやう (myau, historical)}
• Kan-on: もう (mō, Jōyō)^{←まう (mau, historical)}
• Kun: めくら (mekura, 盲); めしい (meshī, 盲)

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(めくら) • (mekura) 

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

Etymology 2

Noun

盲(めしい) • (meshii) 

1. (archaic) Same as above.

Etymology 3

Noun

盲(もう) • (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

(deprecated template usage) 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