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蒙

See also: 懞, 矇, and 濛
蒙 U+8499, 蒙
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8499
← 蒘
[U+8498] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 蒚 →
[U+849A]

TranslingualEdit

Han characterEdit

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

Derived charactersEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • 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

ChineseEdit

Glyph originEdit

Historical forms of the character 蒙
Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
     
Characters in the same phonetic series (冡) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
蒙 *moːŋ
冡 *moːŋ
濛 *moːŋ, *moːŋʔ
艨 *moːŋ, *moːŋs
朦 *moːŋ, *moːŋʔ
矇 *moːŋ
饛 *moːŋ
檬 *moːŋ
鸏 *moːŋ, *moːŋʔ
幪 *moːŋ
蠓 *moːŋ, *moːŋʔ
靀 *moːŋ
曚 *moːŋʔ

Etymology 1Edit

simp. and trad.
 蒙
variant forms ⿱𫇦一 (second-round simplified)

STEDT compares it to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *muːŋ ~ r/s-muːk (“foggy; dark; sullen; menacing; thunder”).

PronunciationEdit

Note: měng - only in 蒙古 (“Mongolia”).
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 		/*mˁoŋ/
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/

DefinitionsEdit

蒙

  1. to cover
  2. to deceive; to cheat
  3. to suffer
  4. (honorific) to receive (a favour)
  5. ignorance
  6. Short for 蒙古 (Měnggǔ, “Mongolia”).
  7. fourth hexagram of the I Ching
  8. A surname​.
CompoundsEdit
Derived terms from 蒙

Etymology 2Edit

For pronunciation and definitions of 蒙 – see 濛 (“drizzling, misty, raining; drizzling, misty, raining”).
(This character, 蒙, is the simplified form of 濛.)
Notes:

Etymology 3Edit

For pronunciation and definitions of 蒙 – see 懞 (“cover; ignorant; etc.”).
(This character, 蒙, is the simplified form of 懞.)
Notes:

Etymology 4Edit

For pronunciation and definitions of 蒙 – see 矇 (“stupid, ignorant; blind”).
(This character, 蒙, is the simplified form of 矇.)
Notes:

JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

蒙

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

ReadingsEdit

CompoundsEdit

Compounds


Kanji in this term
蒙
もう
Jinmeiyō
kan’yōon

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

蒙 (hiragana もう, rōmaji 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。

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  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

KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

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

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VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

蒙 (mông, mong, mòng, mỏng, muống)

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