Chinese Character Wiki

孟

mèng

first in series

A child 子 sitting on a throne 皿

Components
子 meaning component

子  Meaning component

zi, zǐ

  

child

皿 meaning component

皿  Meaning component

mǐn

  

dish

Evolution

孟 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
孟 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
孟 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
孟 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

孟  

mèng

first in series; great, eminent; first month of a season; eldest amongst brothers

孟  

Mèng

surname Meng

Most common words with 孟
Freq.
Word
Meaning

孟

first month of a season

孟菲斯

Memphis (Egypt or Tennessee)

孟买

Mumbai (formerly Bombay)

孟子

book of the same name, one of the classics of Confucianism

孟加拉

Bengal

Component uses

Sound component in 6 characters (0 verified)

猛 錳 锰 蜢 勐 艋

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*mˤraŋ-s

maengH

mèng

eldest, great


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.5469% of movies

2467th most common character in movies

1575th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+5B5F

Shuowen

“孟，長也。从子，皿聲。，古文孟。”


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