茗
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茗 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+6, 10 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 9 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 廿弓戈口 (TNIR), four-corner 44607, composition ⿱艹名)
Phono-semantic compound (形聲/形声, OC *meːŋʔ) : semantic 艸 (“grass; plant”) + phonetic 名 (OC *meŋ).
A late word; earliest extant attestation is in Shuowen Jiezi (c. C.E. 100).
Likely from Austroasiatic. Compare Palaungic မျံမ် (miəm), Danau miːn2, Lamet mɪːŋ, Mlabri miʌŋ, Mal mhiaŋ, Nyah Kur mìəm, Thai เมี่ยง (mîiang), Northern Thai ᩉ᩠ᨾᩮᩥ᩠᩶ᨿᨦ, Lao ໝ້ຽງ (mīang).
茗
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