銘

See also: 铭

Translingual

Han character

銘 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+6, 14 strokes, cangjie input 金弓戈口 (CNIR), four-corner 8716₀, composition ⿰金名)

Descendants

• 铭

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1305, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40385
• Dae Jaweon: page 1807, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4200, character 10
• Unihan data for U+9298

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Chinese

trad.		銘
simp.		铭

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 銘
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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

	Old Chinese
名	*meŋ
洺	*meŋ
眳	*meŋʔ, *meːŋʔ
詺	*meŋs
銘	*meːŋ
茗	*meːŋʔ
酩	*meːŋʔ
姳	*meːŋʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *meːŋ) : semantic 釒 (“metal”) + phonetic 名 (OC *meŋ) – engrave in metal. Note that 名 means “name”, hence connotations of “engrave a name in metal”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): míng (ming²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ming⁴ / ming⁵
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): bêng

  (Teochew, Peng'im): mêng⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: míng
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄥˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: míng
    • Wade–Giles: ming²
    • Yale: míng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ming
    • Palladius: мин (min)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /miŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ming⁴ / ming⁵
    • Yale: mìhng / míhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ming⁴ / ming⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: ming⁴ / ming⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɪŋ²¹/, /mɪŋ¹³/
• Southern Min
  • (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/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: mêng⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: mêng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /meŋ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: meng

Rime
Character	銘
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	青 (125)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	莫經切
Baxter	meng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/meŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/meŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/mɛŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/mɛjŋ/
Li Rong	/meŋ/
Wang Li	/mieŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/mieŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	míng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ming4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*mˤeŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*meːŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	銘
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	míng
Middle Chinese	‹ meng ›
Old Chinese	/*mˁeŋ/
English	inscription
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	銘
Reading #	1/1
No.	9182
Phonetic component	名
Rime group	耕
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	冥
Old Chinese	/*meːŋ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 銘

1. inscribe, engrave
2. inscription
3. unforgettably

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Japanese

Kanji

銘

(Jōyō kanji)

1. inscription

Readings

• Go-on: みょう (myō)^{←みやう (myau, historical)}
• Kan-on: めい (mei, Jōyō)
• Nanori: たか (taka); み (mi); め (me)

Kanji in this term
銘
めい Grade: S
on'yomi

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Chinese 銘／铭 (meng, “inscription”).

Noun

銘(めい) • (mei) 

1. inscription

Derived terms

• 無銘(むめい) (mumei)
• 太刀銘(たちめい) (tachimei)
• 刀銘(かたなめい) (katanamei)
• 刀銘(とうめい) (tōmei)
• 表銘(おもてめい) (omotemei)
• 裏銘(うらめい) (uramei)
• 二字銘(にじめい) (nijimei): (swords) an inscription of two characters
• 長銘(ながめい) (nagamei), 長銘(ちょうめい) (chōmei): (swords) an inscription that includes some personal details about the swordsmith
• 受領銘(ずりょうめい) (zuryōmei)
• 折(お)り返(かえ)し銘(めい) (orikaeshimei)
• 額銘(がくめい) (gakumei): (swords) an inscription where a blade is shortened and a rectangular metal piece bearing the original inscription is cut out from the removed portion and embedded in the new tang
• 朱銘(しゅめい) (shumei)

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Korean

Hanja

銘 (eum 명 (myeong))

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Vietnamese

Han character

銘: Hán Nôm readings: minh, triệu

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References

• Nom Foundation