萌

Translingual

Han character

萌 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 廿日月 (TAB), four-corner 4462₇, composition ⿱艹明)

Derived characters

• 𢅆, 橗, 𫄁, 𬠫, 𧾆, 𬝡, 𢡗

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1041, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31265
• Dae Jaweon: page 1499, character 26
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3233, character 14
• Unihan data for U+840C

Chinese

Wikipedia has articles on:

• 萌 (Written Standard Chinese^?)
• 萌 (Cantonese)
• Moe (Southern Min)
• 萌 (Classical)

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *mreːŋ) : semantic 艹 (“grass; plant”) + phonetic 明 (OC *mraŋ).

Etymology 1

“to bud; to begin”

Compare Lepcha ᰖᰮ (mlam, “shoots that sprout from stump of tree”) (Schuessler, 2007).

“moe”

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 萌え (moe).

Pronunciation

Definitions

萌

1. to bud; to sprout; to germinate
2. to begin; to start
3. beginning; start; harbinger; omen; augury; portent
4. to happen; to occur; to take place
5. (ACG) moe: feelings of affection towards a fictional character
6. (Internet slang, by extension) cute; adorable

   賣萌／卖萌  ―  màiméng  ―  to act cutely

7. a surname: Meng

Synonyms

• (to bud):

• (to begin):

• (beginning):

• (harbinger):

• (people):

• (to happen): 發生／发生 (fāshēng)
• (ignorant): 無知／无知 (wúzhī)

Compounds

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Definitions

萌

1. Used in 蕨萌 (“a grass name”).

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

Definitions

萌

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of 氓 (“farmer; wanderer”)

References

• “萌”, 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–
• zi.tools

Japanese

Kanji

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. bud, sprout

Readings

• Go-on: みょう (myō)^{←みやう (myau, historical)}
• Kan-on: もう (mō)^{←まう (mau, historical)}
• Kan’yō-on: ほう (hō)^{←はう (fau, historical)}; ぼう (bō)^{←ばう (bau, historical)}
• Kun: きざし (kizashi, 萌し); きざす (kizasu, 萌す); めばえ (mebae, 萌え); めぐむ (megumu, 萌む); もえ (moe, 萌); もえる (moeru, 萌える); もやし (moyashi, 萌やし); たみ (tami, 萌)
• Nanori: ほの (hono); めぐみ (megumi); めみ (memi)

Compounds

Alternative forms

• 萠

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

Proper noun

萌(きざし) • (Kizashi) 

1. a female given name
2. a surname

Etymology 3

Nominalization of 萌え (moe), the 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 萌(も)える (moeru, “to bud, sprout”).

Proper noun

萌(もえ) • (Moe) 

1. a female given name

References

• “萌”, in 漢字ぺディア (Kanjipedia)‎ (in Japanese), 日本漢字能力検定協会, 2015–2024

Korean

Hanja

萌 • (maeng) (hangeul 맹, revised maeng, McCune–Reischauer maeng, Yale mayng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

萌: Hán Nôm readings: manh, mánh, mảnh, mành

1. đáng yêu, dễ thương