瞑 · míng
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Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
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- Mandarin
- míng
- Cantonese
- ming4
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 瞑 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Source record & scope
Unicode Unihan 17.0.0 · kJapanese ↗ · provisional property
メイ メン ミン ベン ベイ ミョウ ボウ くらいKorean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 명
- KS X 1001 (0) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Character readings · Quốc ngữ
Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.
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Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+7791
- Radical
- 目 · 109
- Strokes
- 15 · Unihan
- Residual
- 10
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
15 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 瞑
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Component roles · attributed
- 冥 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 冥聲
Line 2780 · ⿰目冥 · 冥聲 · source reference 0990870
Source analyses, kept separate from modern IDS. CJKVI labels are not individually verified historical conclusions. Evidence & limits ↗
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- men · 莫賢 反切 · #589
- Middle Chinese
- meng · 莫經 反切 · #942
- Middle Chinese
- menH · 莫甸 反切 · #2707
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 4795 · men = 山開四平先明 · meng = 梗開四平青明 · menH = 山開四去先明
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- míng
- kCantonese
- ming4
- kDefinition
- close eyes
- kTotalStrokes
- 15
- kRSUnicode
- 109.10
- kTGH
- 2013:5904
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- míng,méng,mián 42508.020
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- míng 0793.030,0793.040
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- míng 255.040
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- míng,mǐng粵ming4,ming5
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 莫賢 莫經 莫甸
- Kangxi positions
- 0815.080
- Guangyun positions
- 135.30 197.36 408.36
- GSR references
- 0841b
- Cangjie
- BUBAC
- Four-corner
- 6708.0