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Translingual
Han character
鳴 (Kangxi radical 196, 鳥+3, 14 strokes, cangjie input 口竹日火 (RHAF), four-corner 67027, composition ⿰口鳥)
Derived characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 1482, character 18
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 46672
- Dae Jaweon: page 2014, character 5
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4615, character 17
- Unihan data for U+9CF4
Chinese
Glyph origin
Ideogrammic compound (會意/会意) : 口 (“mouth”) + 鳥 (“bird”) – to cry (of birds).
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mriŋ (“sound; noise; animal cry”); cognate with 鈴 (OC *reːŋ, “bell”), 笙 (OC *sreŋ), Burmese မြည် (mrany, “to make a sound”) (Schuessler, 2007; STEDT).
Pronunciation
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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Character
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鳴
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Reading #
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1/1
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Modern Beijing (Pinyin)
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míng
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Middle Chinese
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‹ mjæng ›
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Old Chinese
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/*m.reŋ/
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English
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cry (of birds or animals)
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:
* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
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Zhengzhang system (2003)
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Character
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鳴
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Reading #
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1/1
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No.
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9216
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Phonetic component
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鳴
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Rime group
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耕
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Rime subdivision
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0
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Corresponding MC rime
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明
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Old Chinese
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/*mreŋ/
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Definitions
鳴
- (of birds, animals and insects) to cry, to call
- 鳥鳴/鸟鸣 ― niǎo míng ― birds cry
- (of other kinds of noises) to make a sound
- 雷鳴/雷鸣 ― léimíng ― to be thunderous
- 耳鳴/耳鸣 ― ěrmíng ― tinnitus
- (literary, or in compounds) to express; to voice
- 鳴冤/鸣冤 ― míngyuān ― to voice grievances
- 鳴不平/鸣不平 ― míngbùpíng ― to cry out against injustice
- a surname
Synonyms
Compounds
References
- “鳴”, 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), “鸣”, 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
鳴
(Second grade kyōiku kanji)
- a cry; crying
Readings
Compounds
Synonyms
Korean
Hanja
鳴 (eumhun 울 명 (ul myeong))
- hanja form? of 명 (“cry of bird or animal”)
- hanja form? of 명 (“make sound”)
Vietnamese
Han character
鳴: Hán Nôm readings: minh, mắng, mằng
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