冥
㝠Meanings
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- 1.old variant of 冥[míng]
- 1.dark
- 2.deep
- 3.stupid
- 4.the underworld
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Wiktionary
- 1.dark; dim; gloomy; faint
- 2.ignorant; muddled
- 3.deep; profound
- 4.the underworld
- 5.night
- 6.a surname
- 7.only used in 顛冥／颠冥
- 8.only used in 冥眴
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Etymology
Originally ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 冖 (“cloth cover”) + 日 (“sun”) + 廾 (“two hands”) – "dark". The upper part of the character is 𠕾. The 廾 was later corrupted to 六. May also be a phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *meːŋ): phonetic 冖 (OC *meːɡ) + semantic 日 + semantic 廾 (Shuowen Jiezi). An area word for "night"; Compare Proto-Hmong-Mien *ʰməŋH (“night”), Proto-Bahnaric *maŋ (“night”), Burmese မည်း (many:, “dark; black”) (Schuessler, 2007). STEDT compares it to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *muːŋ ~ r/s-muːk (“foggy; dark; sullen; menacing; thunder”).
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Related words
冥想 to meditate冥诞 (formal) posthumous birthday冥界 ghost world冥道 path to the underworld (in Daoist or folk beliefs, referring to the journey of spirits after death)冥婚 posthumous or ghost marriage (in which at least one of the bride and groom is dead)幽冥 dark冥合 to agree implicitly冥纸 joss paper made to resemble paper money冥寿 birthday of a deceased person冥府 underworld冥顽 stupidly obstinate窈冥 variant of 杳冥[yǎo míng]