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U+540D, 名
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-540D

[U+540C]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+540E]
U+3294, ㊔
CIRCLED IDEOGRAPH NAME

[U+3293]
Enclosed CJK Letters and Months
[U+3295]

Translingual

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6 strokes
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Han character

(Kangxi radical 30, +3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 弓戈口 (NIR), four-corner 27600, composition )

Derived characters

Further reading

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 175, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3297
  • Dae Jaweon: page 391, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 582, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+540D

Chinese

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Glyph origin

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Shang Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
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Old Chinese
*meŋ
*meŋ
*meŋʔ, *meːŋʔ
*meŋs
*meːŋ
*meːŋʔ
*meːŋʔ
*meːŋʔ
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Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): (crescent moon) + (mouth) — to say one's own name to identify oneself in the dark.

An alternative theory has been proposed based on Shang era texts. was originally used to write both and . standing for what later came to be written , was added as a phonetic indicator to disambiguate the two meanings.

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-meŋ (name). Cognate with Tibetan མིང (ming), Burmese အမည် (a.many), and Mizo hming.

Pronunciation

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Mandarin Beijing /miŋ³⁵/
Harbin /miŋ²⁴/
Tianjin /miŋ⁴⁵/
Jinan /miŋ⁴²/
Qingdao /miŋ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /miŋ⁴²/
Xi'an /miŋ²⁴/
Xining /miə̃²⁴/
Yinchuan /miŋ⁵³/
Lanzhou /mĩn⁵³/
Ürümqi /miŋ⁵¹/
Wuhan /min²¹³/
Chengdu /min³¹/
Guiyang /min²¹/
Kunming /mĩ¹/
Nanjing /min²⁴/
Hefei /min⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /miəŋ¹¹/
Pingyao /miŋ¹³/
/mi¹³/ 名字
Hohhot /mĩŋ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /miŋ²³/
Suzhou /min¹³/
Hangzhou /min²¹³/
Wenzhou /meŋ³¹/
Hui Shexian /miʌ̃⁴⁴/
Tunxi /mɛ⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /min¹³/
Xiangtan /mian¹²/
/min¹²/
Gan Nanchang /miɑŋ⁴⁵/
/min⁴⁵/ ~堂
Hakka Meixian /miaŋ¹¹/
Taoyuan /miɑŋ¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /meŋ²¹/
/mɛŋ³⁵/
Nanning /mɛŋ²¹/
Hong Kong /miŋ²¹/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /biŋ³⁵/
/mia³⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /miaŋ⁵³/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /miaŋ³³/
Shantou (Teochew) /miã⁵⁵/
Haikou (Hainanese) /meŋ³¹/
/mia³¹/
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Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (4)
Final () (121)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter mjieng
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Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/miᴇŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/miɛŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/miæŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/miajŋ/
Li
Rong
/miɛŋ/
Wang
Li
/mĭɛŋ/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/mi̯ɛŋ/
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Mandarin
Reflex
míng
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Cantonese
Reflex
ming4
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Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
míng
Middle
Chinese
‹ mjieng ›
Old
Chinese
/*C.meŋ/
English name

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.
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Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 9178
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*meŋ/
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Note:
  • ming4 - literary;
  • meng4(-2) - vernacular.

  • Dialectal data

Definitions

  1. name
       shūmíng   title of the book
       gěi tā qǐ ge míngr   give it a name
  2. given name
    Coordinate term: (xìng)
  3. reputation; fame
       yǒumíng   famous
       míng   fame and fortune
  4. famous; reputable
       míngpái   having a good brand name; a brand name product
  5. excuse; form; ostensible purpose
    師出有师出有   shīchūyǒumíng   to do something for a good and proper reason
  6. (grammar) Short for 名詞名词 (míngcí, “noun”).
  7. (grammar) Short for 專有名詞专有名词 (zhuānyǒu míngcí, “proper noun”).
  8. (archaic, mathematics, arithmetic) sign
  9. to be called
    什乇 [Eastern Min, trad. and simp.]
    Ĭ miàng sié-nó̤h? / [i⁵⁵ miaŋ⁵³ sie²¹³⁻⁵³ nˡɔʔ²⁴] [Bàng-uâ-cê / IPA]
    What's his/her name?
  10. to describe; to give details of
    其妙   míngqímiào   baffling
  11. Classifier for place in a competition or position in a name list.
  12. Classifier for people with a certain status or identity.

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Compounds

References

  • ”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database), 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014
  • ”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.
  • 莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 382.
  • 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 159.

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