懵

懵 U+61F5, 懵 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-61F5 ← 懴 [U+61F4] CJK Unified Ideographs 懶 → [U+61F6]

Translingual

Han character

懵 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+16, 19 strokes, cangjie input 心廿田山 (PTWU), four-corner 9406₂, composition ⿰忄瞢)

Derived characters

• 𡬆

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 408, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11451
• Dae Jaweon: page 749, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2367, character 1
• Unihan data for U+61F5

Chinese

trad.		懵
simp. #		懵
alternative forms		懜 懞／蒙

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 懵
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (夢) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
蘉	*maːŋ
瞢	*mɯːŋ, *mɯŋ, *mɯŋs
懜	*mɯːŋs, *mɯːŋ, *mɯŋ
懵	*mɯːŋs, *mɯːŋʔ
甍	*mrɯːŋ
薨	*hmɯːŋ
夢	*mɯŋ, *mɯŋs
鄸	*mɯŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *mɯːŋs, *mɯːŋʔ): semantic 心 (“heart”) + phonetic 瞢 (OC *mɯːŋ, *mɯŋ, *mɯŋs).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): měng, méng, mēng

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄥˇ, ㄇㄥˊ, ㄇㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mung² / mung⁵ / mung⁴
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): morng²
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): báng
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶maon; ⁶mon

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: měng
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄥˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: měng
    • Wade–Giles: mêng³
    • Yale: měng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: meeng
    • Palladius: мэн (mɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɤŋ²¹⁴/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: méng
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄥˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: méng
    • Wade–Giles: mêng²
    • Yale: méng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: meng
    • Palladius: мэн (mɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɤŋ³⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, variant in Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mēng
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: meng
    • Wade–Giles: mêng¹
    • Yale: mēng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mheng
    • Palladius: мэн (mɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɤŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: mung² / mung⁵ / mung⁴
    • Yale: múng / múhng / mùhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mung² / mung⁵ / mung⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: mung² / mung⁵ / mung⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mʊŋ³⁵/, /mʊŋ¹³/, /mʊŋ²¹/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: morng²
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: mó̤ng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɒŋ¹³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: morng²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɒŋ²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: báng
    • Tâi-lô: báng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: barng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /baŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /baŋ⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /baŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /baŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /baŋ⁴¹/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶maon; ⁶mon
    • MiniDict: maon^去; mon^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³maan; ³mon
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /mɑ̃²³/, /moŋ²³/

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• Middle Chinese: muwngX

Rime
Character	懵
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	東 (1)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	莫孔切
Baxter	muwngX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/muŋX/
Pan Wuyun	/muŋX/
Shao Rongfen	/muŋX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/məwŋX/
Li Rong	/muŋX/
Wang Li	/muŋX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/muŋX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	měng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mung5

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*mɯːŋs/, /*mɯːŋʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	懵	懵
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	8990	8994
Phonetic component	夢	夢
Rime group	蒸	東
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	𢅴	蠓
Old Chinese	/*mɯːŋs/	/*mɯːŋʔ/
Notes	由巾旁校正，集韻同懜

Definitions

懵

1. absent-minded; stupid; muddle-headed

Compounds

• 惛懵
• 愚懵
• 懵憒 / 懵愦
• 懵懂 (měngdǒng)
• 懵懂痴呆
• 懵懵
• 懵懵懂懂 (měngměngdǒngdǒng)
• 懵撒
• 懵然 (měngrán)
• 懵然未覺 / 懵然未觉
• 懵然無知 / 懵然无知
• 懵盛盛
• 懵藥 / 懵药
• 懵裡懵懂 / 懵里懵懂
• 懵騰 / 懵腾
• 痴呆懵懂
• 迷懵

References

• “懵”, 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), “懵”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 155.

Vietnamese

Han character

懵: Hán Nôm readings: mộng, mẫng, mỗng

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References

• Nom Foundation