蒙

See also: 懞, 矇, and 濛

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TranslingualEdit

Han characterEdit

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 charactersEdit

• 幪 獴 濛 懞 檬 曚 朦 礞 矇 蠓 艨 饛 氋 鸏 (鹲) 靀

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

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ChineseEdit

Etymology 1Edit

simp. and trad.		蒙

PronunciationEdit

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): méng, měng, mēng (meng², meng³, meng¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄥˊ, ㄇㄥˇ, ㄇㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mung⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): bông

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: méng
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄥˊ
    • Wade-Giles: mêng²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: meng
    • IPA ^(key): /mɤŋ³⁵/
    • 
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: měng
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄥˇ
    • Wade-Giles: mêng³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: meeng
    • IPA ^(key): /mɤŋ²¹⁴/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: mēng
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄥ
    • Wade-Giles: mêng¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mheng
    • IPA ^(key): /mɤŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: mung⁴
    • Yale: mùhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mung⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /mʊŋ²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bông
    • Tâi-lô: bông
    • Phofsit Daibuun: boong
    • IPA (Taipei): /bɔŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /bɔŋ¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: /muŋ/▼

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

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*mˤoŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*moːŋ/

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/

DefinitionsEdit

蒙

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CompoundsEdit

• mēng
  • 蒙哄
  • 蒙蒙黑
  • 蒙蒙亮
  • 蒙骗
  • 蒙事
  • 蒙头转向
• méng
  • 蒙蔽
  • 蒙尘
  • 蒙垢
  • 蒙汗药
  • 蒙哄
  • 蒙混
  • 蒙胧
  • 蒙昧
  • 蒙昧主义
  • 蒙蒙
  • 蒙难
  • 蒙求
  • 蒙受
  • 蒙太奇
  • 蒙学
  • 蒙药
  • 蒙冤
  • 蒙在鼓里
• měng
  • 蒙古
  • 蒙古包
  • 蒙古大夫
  • 蒙古人种
  • 蒙古族
  • 蒙文
  • 蒙族

ReferencesEdit

• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

Etymology 2Edit

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

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

Etymology 3Edit

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

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

Etymology 4Edit

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

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

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JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

蒙

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

ReadingsEdit

• Goon: む (mu)
• Kan’on: ぼう (bō)
• Kan’yōon: もう (mō)
• Kun: おおう (ōu), こうむる (kōmuru), くらい (kurai)

CompoundsEdit

Compounds

屯蒙 (ちゅんもう) ‎(chunmō): the infancy and beginning of something

Kanji in this term
蒙
もう Jinmeiyō
kan'yōon

PronunciationEdit

• Kan'yōyomi
• (Tokyo) も​う [móꜜò] (Atamadaka - [1])
• IPA^(key): [mo̞ː]

PronounEdit

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。

ReferencesEdit

• Gotō, Tanji; Saburō Kamada (1960) Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 34: Taiheiki 1 (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, ISBN 4-0006-0034-6

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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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