萌

萌 U+840C, 萌 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-840C ← 萋 [U+840B] CJK Unified Ideographs 萍 → [U+840D]

See also: 萠

Translingual

Han character

萌 (radical 140 艸+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 廿日月 (TAB), four-corner 4462₇, composition ⿱艹明)

References

• KangXi: page 1041, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31265
• Dae Jaweon: page 1499, character 26
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3233, character 14
• Unihan data for U+840C

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		萌

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (明) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
莔	*mraːŋ, *qʰɯd
明	*mraŋ
盟	*mraŋ, *mraːŋs
萌	*mreːŋ
奣	*ʔmraːŋʔ

Etymology

“cute; adorable”

From Japanese 萌え (moe).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): méng (meng²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄥˊ

  (Chengdu, SP): mong²

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mang⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): bêng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: méng
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄥˊ
    • Wade-Giles: mêng²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: meng
    • IPA ^(key): /mɤŋ³⁵/
• • (Chengdu)
    • Sichuanese Pinyin: mong²
    • Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: mung
    • IPA ^(key): /moŋ²¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: mang⁴
    • Yale: màhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mang⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: meng⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /mɐŋ²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bêng
    • Tâi-lô: bîng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: beeng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /biɪŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /biɪŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /biɪŋ¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /biɪŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /biɪŋ²³/

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 萌
Mandarin	Beijing	/məŋ³⁵/
	Harbin	/məŋ²⁴/
	Tianjin	/məŋ⁴⁵/
	Jinan	/məŋ⁴²/
	Qingdao	/məŋ⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/məŋ⁴²/
	Xi'an	/məŋ²⁴/
	Xining	/mə̃²⁴/
	Yinchuan	/məŋ⁵³/
	Lanzhou	/mə̃n⁵³/
	Ürümqi	/mɤŋ²¹³/
	Wuhan	/moŋ²¹³/
	Chengdu	/moŋ³¹/
	Guiyang	/min²¹/ /moŋ²¹/ 新
	Kunming	/moŋ³¹/
	Nanjing	/mən²⁴/
	Hefei	/məŋ⁵⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/məŋ¹¹/
	Pingyao	/məŋ¹³/
	Hohhot	/mə̃ŋ³¹/
Wu	Shanghai	/mg²³/
	Suzhou	/mən¹³/
	Hangzhou	/men²¹³/
	Wenzhou	/miɛ³¹/
Hui	Shexian	/mʌ̃⁴⁴/
	Tunxi	/man⁴⁴/
Xiang	Changsha	/moŋ¹³/
	Xiangtan	/min¹²/
Gan	Nanchang
Hakka	Meixian	/men¹¹/
	Taoyuan	/men¹¹/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/mɐŋ²¹/
	Nanning	/meŋ²¹/
	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: /mˠɛŋ/▼

Rime
Character	萌
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
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mˠɛŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/mᵚæŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/mɐŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/məɨjŋ/
Li Rong	/mɛŋ/
Wang Li	/mæŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/mæŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	méng

• Old Chinese▼

  (Zhengzhang): /*mreːŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	萌
Reading #	1/1
No.	9191
Phonetic component	明
Rime group	耕
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	甍
Old Chinese	/*mreːŋ/

Definitions

萌

1. to bud; to sprout
2. to begin; to start
3. (ACG, Internet slang) cute; adorable

   賣萌 / 卖萌  ―  màiméng  ―  to act cutely

Compounds

• 勾萌
• 孳萌
• 故態復萌／故态复萌
• 未萌
• 杜漸防萌／杜渐防萌
• 竹萌
• 舊念復萌／旧念复萌
• 舊態復萌／旧态复萌

• 萌兆
• 萌兒／萌儿
• 萌動／萌动
• 萌櫱
• 萌生 (méngshēng)
• 萌發／萌发 (méngfā)
• 萌芽 (méngyá)
• 萌茁

• 萌隸／萌隶
• 萌黎
• 見微知萌／见微知萌
• 賓萌／宾萌
• 遏漸防萌／遏渐防萌
• 防芽遏萌
• 防萌杜漸／防萌杜渐

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Japanese

Kanji

萌

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. showing symptom
2. sprout, bud, malt
3. fascination;  infatuation

Readings

• Goon: みょう (myō)^{←みやう (myau, historical)}
• Kan’on: もう (mō)^{←まう (mau, historical)}
• Kan’yōon: ほう (hō)^{←はう (fau, historical)}; ぼう (bō)^{←ばう (bau, historical)}
• Kun: きざし (kizashi, 萌し); きざす (kizasu, 萌す); めばえ (mebae, 萌); もえ (moe, 萌); もえる (moeru, 萌える)^{←もゆ (moyu, historical)}
• Nanori: ほの (hono)

Proper noun

萌 (hiragana もえ, rōmaji Moe)

1. A female given name

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

萌 (manh, mánh, mảnh, mành)

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