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蒙

蒙

See also: 懞, 矇, and 濛

Translingual

Han character

蒙 (radical 140 艸+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 廿月一人 (TBMO), four-corner 44232, composition ⿱艹冡)

  1. to cover
  2. ignorant
  3. suffer
  4. fourth hexagram of the I Ching
  5. Mongolia - radical composition becomes 'grass(land) family'
  6. a surname

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 1048, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31555
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1509, character 22
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3271, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+8499

Chinese

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.
 蒙

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 蒙
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 東 (1)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 莫紅切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /muŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /muŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /muŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /məwŋ/
Li
Rong		 /muŋ/
Wang
Li		 /muŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /muŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 méng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 蒙
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 méng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ muwng ›
Old
Chinese		 /*mˤoŋ/
English cover (v.)

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 蒙
Reading # 1/1
No. 8969
Phonetic
component		 冡
Rime
group		 東
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 蒙
Old
Chinese		 /*moːŋ/

Definitions

蒙

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Compounds

References

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 蒙 – see 濛.
(This character, 蒙, is the simplified form of 濛.)
Notes:

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of 蒙 – see 懞.
(This character, 蒙, is the simplified form of 懞.)
Notes:

Etymology 4

For pronunciation and definitions of 蒙 – see 矇.
(This character, 蒙, is the simplified form of 矇.)
Notes:

Japanese

Kanji

蒙

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

Compounds

Kanji in this term
蒙
もう
Jinmeiyō
kan'yōon

Pronunciation

Pronoun

蒙 ‎(hiragana もう, romaji mō)

  1. humble first-person personal pronoun; I, me
    • c. 1368-1375 Taiheiki (preface)
      蒙窃採古今之変化、察安危之来由、覆而無外天之徳也。

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

蒙 • ‎(mong) (hangeul 몽, revised mong, McCune-Reischauer mong, Yale mong)

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Vietnamese

Han character

蒙 (mông, mong, mòng, mỏng, muống)

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