鳴

See also: 嗚 and 鸣

鳴 U+9CF4, 鳴 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9CF4 ← 鳳 [U+9CF3] CJK Unified Ideographs 鳵 → [U+9CF5]

Translingual

Han character

鳴 (Kangxi radical 196, 鳥+3, 14 strokes, cangjie input 口竹日火 (RHAF), four-corner 6702₇, composition ⿰口鳥)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1482, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46672
• Dae Jaweon: page 2014, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4615, character 17
• Unihan data for U+9CF4

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Chinese

trad.		鳴
simp.		鸣

Glyph origin

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 口 (“mouth”) + 鳥 (“bird”) – to cry (of birds).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): míng (ming²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ming⁴
• 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
    • Yale: mìhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ming⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: ming⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɪŋ²¹/
• 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: mjaeng

Rime
Character	鳴
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	庚 (111)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	武兵切
Baxter	mjaeng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mˠiæŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/mᵚiaŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/miaŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/miajŋ/
Li Rong	/miɐŋ/
Wang Li	/mĭɐŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/mi̯ɐŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	míng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ming4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*m.reŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*mreŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	鳴
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	míng
Middle Chinese	‹ mjæng ›
Old Chinese	/*m.reŋ/
English	cry (of birds or animals)
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	鳴
Reading #	1/1
No.	9216
Phonetic component	鳴
Rime group	耕
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	明
Old Chinese	/*mreŋ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 鳴

1. to cry (of birds, animals and insects)

Compounds

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Japanese

Kanji

鳴

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. a cry; crying

Readings

• Go-on: みょう (myō)
• Kan-on: めい (mei, Jōyō)
• Kun: なく (naku, 鳴く, Jōyō); なる (naru, 鳴る, Jōyō); ならす (narasu, 鳴らす, Jōyō)

Compounds

Compounds

• 奏鳴(そうめい)曲(きょく) (sōmeikyoku): sonata
• 悲鳴(ひめい) (himei): a scream, a shriek
• 鳴(なる)門(と) (naruto), 鳴(なる)戸(と) (naruto): a narrows where a noisy whirlpool occurs
• 鳴(なる)戸(と)巻(まき) (naruto maki), 鳴(なる)門(と)巻(まき) (naruto maki): a noisy whirlpool; a spiral pattern resembling a whirlpool

Synonyms

• 泣

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Korean

Hanja

鳴 • (myeong) (hangeul 명, revised myeong, McCune–Reischauer myŏng)

1. cry of bird or animal
2. make sound

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 鳴 (minh)

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