冥

冥	U+51A5, 冥 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-51A5

← 冤
[U+51A4]

CJK Unified Ideographs

冦 →
[U+51A6]

Translingual

Han character

冥 (radical 14 冖+8, 10 strokes, cangjie input 月日卜金 (BAYC), four-corner 3780₀, composition ⿳冖日六)

References

KangXi: page 130, character 28

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1588

Dae Jaweon: page 293, character 8

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 304, character 10

Unihan data for U+51A5

Chinese

simp. and trad.		冥

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (冥) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
瞑	meːn, meːns, *meːŋ
嫇	mreːŋ, meːŋ, *meːŋʔ
慏	*meŋʔ
冥	*meːŋ
榠	*meːŋ
鄍	*meːŋ
溟	meːŋ, meːŋʔ
螟	*meːŋ
猽	*meːŋ
蓂	meːŋ, meːɡ
覭	meːŋ, meːɡ
暝	meːŋ, meːŋs
幎	*meːɡ
幂	*meːɡ
塓	*meːɡ

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): míng (ming²)

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄥˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ming⁴, ming⁵
Min Nan (POJ): bêng

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: míng
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄥˊ
  - Wade–Giles: ming²
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ming
  - IPA ^(key): /miŋ³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: ming⁴, ming⁵
  - Yale: mìhng, míhng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ming⁴, ming⁵
  - Guangdong Romanization: ming⁴, ming⁵
  - IPA ^(key): /mɪŋ²¹/, /mɪŋ¹³/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bêng
  - Tâi-lô: bîng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: beeng
  - IPA (Xiamen): /biɪŋ²⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /biɪŋ²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /biɪŋ¹³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /biɪŋ²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /biɪŋ²³/

Middle Chinese: /meŋ/▼

Rime
Character	冥
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	青 (125)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	莫經切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/meŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/meŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/mɛŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/mɛjŋ/
Li Rong	/meŋ/
Wang Li	/mieŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/mieŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	míng

Old Chinese▼
(Baxter–Sagart): /*mˤeŋ/

(Zhengzhang): /*meːŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	冥
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	míng
Middle Chinese	‹ meng ›
Old Chinese	/*mˤeŋ/
English	dark
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	冥
Reading #	1/1
No.	9197
Phonetic component	冥
Rime group	耕
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	冥
Old Chinese	/*meːŋ/

Definitions

冥

Compounds

冥佑
冥具
冥冥 (míngmíng)
冥冥中
冥冥之中
冥司
冥器 (míngqì)
冥報／冥报
冥壽／冥寿
冥契
冥奧／冥奥
冥婚
冥子裡／冥子里
冥寂
冥寶／冥宝
冥府
冥思
冥思苦想
冥思苦索
冥想 (míngxiǎng)
冥搜
冥數／冥数
冥會／冥会

冥河
冥漠
冥漠君
冥濛／冥蒙
冥王星 (Míngwángxīng)
冥童
冥籍
冥紙／冥纸
冥茫
冥蒙
冥行
冥行擿埴
冥衣 (míngyī)
冥誕／冥诞 (míngdàn)
冥資／冥资
冥途 (míngtú)
冥鈔／冥钞 (míngchāo)
冥錢／冥钱
冥鏹／冥镪
冥靈／冥灵
冥頑／冥顽 (míngwán)
冥頑不靈／冥顽不灵

冥鴻／冥鸿
冥默
北冥
幽冥
幽冥地府
幽冥戒
悄冥冥
悄悄冥冥
晦冥
杳冥
沉冥
混冥
渺渺冥冥
玄冥
窅冥
窈冥
窈窈冥冥
西冥
邈冥冥
青冥
風雨晦冥／风雨晦冥
鴻飛冥冥／鸿飞冥冥

References

(Cantonese) Multi-function Chinese Character Database (漢語多功能字庫)

Japanese

Kanji

冥

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

dark

Readings

Goon: みょう (myō, Jōyō)^{←みやう (myau, historical)}
Kan’on: めい (mei, Jōyō)
Kun: くらい (kurai, 冥い)

Korean

Hanja

冥 • (myeong) (hangeul 명, revised myeong, McCune–Reischauer myŏng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

Hán Việt: minh, mênh, mưng

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