铭

Translingual

simpl.		铭
trad.		銘

Etymology

Simplified from 銘 (釒 → 钅).

In current form Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 钅 (“metal”) + phonetic 名 – engrave in metal. Note that 名 means “name”, hence connotations of “engrave a name in metal”.

Han character

铭 (radical 167 钅+6, 11 strokes, cangjie input 金弓戈口 (CNIR), 人心弓戈口 (OPNIR), X金弓戈口 (XCNIR))

1. inscribe, engrave

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 1328, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4201, character 1
• Unihan data for U+94ED

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Cantonese

Hanzi

铭 (traditional 銘, Yale ming4)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

铭 (traditional 銘, pinyin míng (ming2), yī (yi1), Wade-Giles ming², i¹)

Last modified on 10 October 2012, at 15:23