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U+669D, 暝
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-669D

CJK Unified Ideographs

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 72, +10, 14 strokes, cangjie input 日月日金 (ABAC), four-corner 67080, composition )

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 498, character 37
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14083
  • Dae Jaweon: page 867, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1531, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+669D

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *meːŋ, *meːŋs) : semantic + phonetic (OC *meːŋ).

Pronunciation 1

For pronunciation and definitions of – see (“dark; dim; gloomy; faint; ignorant; muddled; etc.”).
(This character is a variant form of ).

Pronunciation 2


Note:
  • ma2 - vernacular;
  • ming2 - literary.
Note:
  • mî/mê/mêe - vernacular;
  • bêng - literary.
Note:
  • mê5 - vernacular;
  • mêng5 - literary.

    Rime
    Character
    Reading # 2/2
    Initial () (4)
    Final () (125)
    Tone (調) Departing (H)
    Openness (開合) Open
    Division () IV
    Fanqie
    Baxter mengH
    Reconstructions
    Zhengzhang
    Shangfang
    /meŋH/
    Pan
    Wuyun
    /meŋH/
    Shao
    Rongfen
    /mɛŋH/
    Edwin
    Pulleyblank
    /mɛjŋH/
    Li
    Rong
    /meŋH/
    Wang
    Li
    /mieŋH/
    Bernhard
    Karlgren
    /mieŋH/
    Expected
    Mandarin
    Reflex
    mìng
    Expected
    Cantonese
    Reflex
    ming6
    Zhengzhang system (2003)
    Character
    Reading # 2/2
    No. 9210
    Phonetic
    component
    Rime
    group
    Rime
    subdivision
    0
    Corresponding
    MC rime
    Old
    Chinese
    /*meːŋs/

    Definitions

    1. (Classical or Min) night; evening
    2. (Southern Min) Classifier for the number of nights.
    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–
    • 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , 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.

    Japanese

    Kanji

    (Hyōgai kanji)

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    Readings

    • On (unclassified): めい (mei)べい (bei)みょう (myō)
    • Kun: くらい (kurai)

    Korean

    Hanja

    (eum (myeong))

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    Vietnamese

    Han character

    : Hán Nôm readings: minh

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    References