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Translingual
Han character
冥 (Kangxi radical 14, 冖+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 月日卜金 (BAYC), four-corner 37800, composition ⿱冖昗 or ⿱𠕾六)
Derived characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 130, character 28
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1588
- Dae Jaweon: page 293, character 8
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 304, character 10
- Unihan data for U+51A5
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Chinese
Glyph origin
Originally ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 冖 (“cloth cover”) + 日 (“sun”) + 廾 (“two hands”); hence, the upper part of the character is 𠕾. The 廾 was later corrupted to 六.
May also be a phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *meːŋ): phonetic 冖 (OC *meːɡ) + semantic 日 + semantic 廾 (Shuowen Jiezi).
Etymology
An area word for "night"; Compare Proto-Hmong-Mien *ʰməŋH (“night”), Proto-Bahnaric *maŋ (“night”), Burmese မည်း (many:, “dark; black”) (Schuessler, 2007).
STEDT compares it to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *muːŋ ~ r/s-muːk (“foggy; dark; sullen; menacing; thunder”).
Pronunciation 1
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): ming4 / ming5
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): mèn
- Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): ming2
- Southern Min
- 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/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- 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/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: mèn
- Hakka Romanization System: menˇ
- Hagfa Pinyim: men2
- Sinological IPA: /men¹¹/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
- Puxian Min
- (Putian)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: ming2
- Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: míng
- Sinological IPA (key): /miŋ¹³/
- (Xianyou)
- Pouseng Ping'ing: ming2
- Sinological IPA (key): /miŋ²⁴/
- (Putian)
- Southern Min
- Middle Chinese: meng
- Old Chinese
- (Baxter–Sagart): /*mˤeŋ/
- (Zhengzhang): /*meːŋ/
Definitions
冥
- (literary) dark; dim; gloomy; faint
- (literary) ignorant; muddled
- deep; profound
- 苦思冥想 ― kǔsīmíngxiǎng ― to think long and hard
- the underworld
- 冥府 ― míngfǔ ― the nether world
- (obsolete) night
- a surname
Compounds
- 冥佑
- 冥具
- 冥冥 (míngmíng)
- 冥冥中
- 冥冥之中
- 冥加
- 冥司
- 冥器 (míngqì)
- 冥土
- 冥報 / 冥报
- 冥壽 / 冥寿
- 冥契
- 冥奧 / 冥奥
- 冥婚 (mínghūn)
- 冥子裡 / 冥子里
- 冥寂
- 冥寞
- 冥寶 / 冥宝
- 冥府 (míngfǔ)
- 冥思 (míngsī)
- 冥思苦想 (míngsīkǔxiǎng)
- 冥思苦索 (míngsīkǔsuǒ)
- 冥想 (míngxiǎng)
- 冥搜
- 冥數 / 冥数
- 冥昧
- 冥會 / 冥会
- 冥河
- 冥漠
- 冥漠君
- 冥濛 / 冥蒙
- 冥王 (míngwáng)
- 冥王星 (Míngwángxīng)
- 冥界
- 冥福
- 冥童
- 冥籍
- 冥紙 / 冥纸
- 冥茫
- 冥蒙
- 冥行
- 冥行擿埴
- 冥衣 (míngyī)
- 冥誕 / 冥诞 (míngdàn)
- 冥資 / 冥资
- 冥途 (míngtú)
- 冥鈔 / 冥钞 (míngchāo)
- 冥錢 / 冥钱
- 冥鏹 / 冥镪
- 冥靈 / 冥灵
- 冥頑 / 冥顽 (míngwán)
- 冥頑不靈 / 冥顽不灵 (míngwánbùlíng)
- 冥鴻 / 冥鸿
- 冥默
- 北冥
- 幽冥 (yōumíng)
- 幽冥地府
- 幽冥戒 (Yōumíng jiè)
- 悄冥冥
- 悄悄冥冥
- 晦冥 (huìmíng)
- 杳冥
- 沉冥
- 混冥
- 渺渺冥冥
- 玄冥
- 穹冥
- 窅冥
- 窈冥
- 窈窈冥冥
- 西冥
- 邈冥冥
- 青冥
- 風雨晦冥 / 风雨晦冥
- 鴻飛冥冥 / 鸿飞冥冥
Pronunciation 2
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: mián
- Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄢˊ
- Tongyong Pinyin: mián
- Wade–Giles: mien2
- Yale: myán
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mian
- Palladius: мянь (mjanʹ)
- Sinological IPA (key): /mi̯ɛn³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
Definitions
冥
- only used in 顛冥/颠冥
Pronunciation 3
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: miàn
- Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄢˋ
- Tongyong Pinyin: miàn
- Wade–Giles: mien4
- Yale: myàn
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: miann
- Palladius: мянь (mjanʹ)
- Sinological IPA (key): /mi̯ɛn⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese)+
Definitions
冥
- only used in 冥眴
References
- “冥”, 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–
- 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “冥”, 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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Japanese
Kanji
冥
- dark
- Synonym: 溟
- underworld; the world of dead people
Readings
Compounds
dark
- 冥冥 (myōmyō) (溟溟)
- 冥暗, 冥闇 (meian)
- 冥海 (meikai) (溟海)
- 冥晦 (meikai)
- 冥頑 (meigan)
- 冥愚 (meigu)
- 冥契 (meikei)
- 冥鴻 (meikō)
- 冥合 (meigō)
- 冥色 (meishoku) (瞑色)
- 冥棲 (meisei)
- 冥想 (meisō) (瞑想)
- 冥捜 (meisō) (瞑捜)
- 冥漠, 冥邈 (meibaku)
- 冥茫, 冥芒 (meibō)
- 冥昧 (meimai)
- 冥冥 (meimei) (溟溟)
- 冥蒙, 冥濛 (meimō)
- 冥黙 (meimoku)
- 暗冥 (anmei)
- 晦冥 (kaimei) (晦暝)
- 空冥 (kūmei)
- 玄冥 (genmei)
- 高冥 (kōmei)
- 混冥 (konmei) (混溟)
- 紫冥 (shimei)
- 邃冥 (suimei)
- 西冥 (seimei) (西溟)
- 宕冥 (tōmei)
- 南冥 (nanmei) (南溟)
- 北冥 (hokumei) (北溟)
- 幽冥 (yūmei)
- 杳冥 (yōmei)
- 窅冥 (yōmei)
- 窈冥 (yōmei)
world of dead people
other meaning
- 冥応 (myōō)
- 冥恩 (myōon)
- 冥加 (myōga)
- 冥感 (myōkan)
- 冥鑑 (myōkan)
- 冥譴 (myōkan)
- 冥護 (myōgo)
- 冥助 (myōjo)
- 冥利 (myōri)
- 冥慮 (myōryo)
- 冥応 (meiō)
- 冥感 (meikan)
- 冥佑, 冥祐 (meiyū)
- 冥慮 (meiryo)
- 青冥 (seimei)
- 蒼冥 (sōmei)
- 沈冥 (chinmei)
Korean
Hanja
Vietnamese
Han character
冥: Hán Nôm readings: minh, mênh, mưng
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