míng
name
Depicts a mouth (口) saying their own name at night (夕) when it is too dark for others to see them.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
míng
name, rank, title, position; name; noun (part of speech); place (e.g. among winners); famous; classifier for people
Most common words with 名
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
name | ||
name (of a person or thing) | ||
famous | ||
list (of names) | ||
to autograph |
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