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U+540D, 名
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-540D

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

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

Translingual

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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
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Chinese

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Glyph origin

More information Historical forms of the character 名, Shang ...

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


Note:
  • ming4 - literary;
  • meng4(-2) - vernacular.

  • Dialectal data
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More information Rime, Character ...
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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.

Synonyms

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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