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U+5922, 夢
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5922

[U+5921]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5923]
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夢 U+2F85E, 夢
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F85E
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[U+2F85D]
CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 奢
[U+2F85F]

Translingual

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Alternative forms

Note that in Taiwan and Hong Kong, the character is written with on top instead of , as found in the Kangxi dictionary. Traditionally, the character is listed under the radical (sunset). However, in simplified Chinese and Japanese dictionaries, the character may be listed under the radical (grass) as the (crown/hairstyle) component has been simplified to .

Han character

(Kangxi radical 36, +10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 廿田中弓 (TWLN), four-corner 44207, composition 𦭝(GJKV) or ⿱⿳(HT))

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 247, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5801
  • Dae Jaweon: page 492, character 6
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 864, character 19
  • Unihan data for U+5922
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Chinese

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Glyph origin

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In the Oracle bone script, a pictogram (象形) or ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) – a person () lying on a bed (), sometimes with restless hands (compare the oracle-bone character for ) and sometimes with the eye () emphasized.

In the Bronze inscriptions, the eye () has eyebrows above it (compare ), and the person's body is attached underneath, now written as two dots on either side. The bed is no longer present, and instead (“moon; night”) has been added.

In the modern form 夢, the eyebrows are written , the eyes are written , and the person's body has become , while remains on the bottom.

According to Shuowen, it is a phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *mɯŋ, *mɯŋs): phonetic (OC *mɯːŋ, *mɯŋ, *mɯŋs) + semantic .

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(s/r)-ma(ŋ/k) (dream); compare Tibetan རྨང་ལམ (rmang lam, dream), Chepang माङः (dream), Proto-Lolo-Burmese *s-makᴴ ~ *s-maŋ¹ (dream), Mizo mang (dream), Japhug tɯ-jmŋo (dream) (STEDT; Schuessler, 2007; Zhang, Jacques and Lai, 2019).

Pronunciation


Note:
  • máe̤ng - vernacular;
  • móng - literary.

  • Dialectal data
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Definitions

  1. dream (Classifier: m c mn;  m c mn)
       měimèng   good dream
       mèngyǎn   nightmare
       zuòmèng   to dream
    [Cantonese]   faat3 mung6 [Jyutping]   to dream
    尋晚關於裡面見到一齊健身 [Cantonese, trad.]
    寻晚关于里面见到一齐健身 [Cantonese, simp.]
    ngo5 cam4 maan5 faat3 zo2 go3 mung6, hai6 gwaan1 jyu1 nei5 ge3. hai2 mung6 leoi5 min6 ngo5 gin3 dou3-2 nei5 tung4 ngo5 jat1 cai4 gin6 san1. [Jyutping]
    This morning I had a dream about you. In the dream, I saw you working out with me.
  2. to dream; to have dreams
  3. (figurative) dream; aspiration; ambition; goal
    一個一个   Wǒ yǒu yīge mèng.   I have a dream.
  4. a surname
Synonyms

Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic ():
  • Vietnamese: mộng ()

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation



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Definitions

  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) muddled

Compounds

  • 夢夢 / 梦梦
  • 夢夢查查 / 梦梦查查
  • 夢夢銃銃 / 梦梦铳铳

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
  • 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 155.
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