溟

溟 U+6E9F, 溟 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6E9F ← 溞 [U+6E9E] CJK Unified Ideographs 溠 → [U+6EA0]

Translingual

Han character

溟 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 水月日金 (EBAC), four-corner 3718₀, composition ⿰氵冥)

1. sea, ocean
2. drizzling rain
3. dark, obscure

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 640, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17947
• Dae Jaweon: page 1046, character 24
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1709, character 5
• Unihan data for U+6E9F

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		溟

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
瞑	*meːn, *meːns, *meːŋ
嫇	*mreːŋ, *meːŋ, *meːŋʔ
慏	*meŋʔ
冥	*meːŋ
榠	*meːŋ
鄍	*meːŋ
溟	*meːŋ, *meːŋʔ
螟	*meːŋ
猽	*meːŋ
蓂	*meːŋ, *meːɡ
覭	*meːŋ, *meːɡ
暝	*meːŋ, *meːŋs
幎	*meːɡ
幂	*meːɡ
塓	*meːɡ

Etymology

Thought by classical commentators to be the same word as 冥 (OC *meːŋ, “dark, black(of water)”) (likely in light of the parallelism with the unrelated 海 (OC *hmlɯːʔ, “sea, ocean”) < 晦 (OC *hmɯːs, “dark”)). If so, see 冥 (OC *meːŋ) for etymology.

Schuessler (2007) proposes that there's an outside chance this can be instead connected with Proto-Tibeto-Burman *mlik, whence Old Burmese မ္လစ် (“river”), Burmese မြစ် (mrac), Rakhine [script needed] (mreik, “sea”), Daai Chin [Term?] (mlik (tui), “big water, river, sea”)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): míng (ming²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ming⁴ / ming⁵
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bêng

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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/

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• Middle Chinese: meng, mengX

Rime
Character	溟	溟
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	明 (4)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	青 (125)	青 (125)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	IV	IV
Fanqie	莫經切	莫迥切
Baxter	meng	mengX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/meŋ/	/meŋX/
Pan Wuyun	/meŋ/	/meŋX/
Shao Rongfen	/mɛŋ/	/mɛŋX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/mɛjŋ/	/mɛjŋX/
Li Rong	/meŋ/	/meŋX/
Wang Li	/mieŋ/	/mieŋX/
Bernard Karlgren	/mieŋ/	/mieŋX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	míng	mǐng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ming4	ming5

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*meːŋ/, /*meːŋʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	溟	溟
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	9200	9209
Phonetic component	冥	冥
Rime group	耕	耕
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	冥	茗
Old Chinese	/*meːŋ/	/*meːŋʔ/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 溟

1. sea, ocean

   • 北冥有魚，其名為鯤。 [MSC, trad.]
     北冥有鱼，其名为鲲。 [MSC, simp.]

     Běimíng yǒu yú, qí míng wéi kūn. [Pinyin]

     In the northern ocean there is a fish; its name is Kun.

References

• “溟”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

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Japanese

Kanji

溟

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: みょう (myō)
• Kan-on: めい (mei)
• Kun: くらい (kurai, 溟い)、うみ (umi, 溟)

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Korean

Hanja

溟 (eum 명 (myeong))

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Vietnamese

Han character

溟: Hán Nôm readings: mênh, minh

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References

• Nom Foundation