Chinese edit

 
just; honourable; public
just; honourable; public; common; fair; duke; mister
 
clear; bright; to understand
clear; bright; to understand; next; the Ming dynasty
trad. (公明)
simp. #(公明)
anagram 明公

Pronunciation edit



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (28) (4)
Final () (1) (111)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I III
Fanqie
Baxter kuwng mjaeng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kuŋ/ /mˠiæŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/kuŋ/ /mᵚiaŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/kuŋ/ /miaŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kəwŋ/ /miajŋ/
Li
Rong
/kuŋ/ /miɐŋ/
Wang
Li
/kuŋ/ /mĭɐŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kuŋ/ /mi̯ɐŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
gōng míng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
gung1 ming4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
gōng gōng míng
Middle
Chinese
‹ kuwng › ‹ kuwng › ‹ mjæng ›
Old
Chinese
/*C.qˁoŋ/ /*C.qˁoŋ/ /*mraŋ/
English impartial, just; public father; prince bright

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
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 4092 9188
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kloːŋ/ /*mraŋ/

Adjective edit

公明

  1. just and open

Proper noun edit

公明

  1. a surname