Chinese Character Wiki

甍

méng

rafters supporting roof tiles

Beams 罒 supporting roof 冖 tiles 瓦

Components
艹 meaning component

艹  Meaning component

cao, cǎo

  

grass

罒 meaning component

罒  Meaning component

wǎng

  

Radical 122

冖 meaning component

冖  Meaning component

mì

  

cover

瓦 meaning component

瓦  Meaning component

wǎ

  

earthenware

Evolution

甍 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
甍 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
甍 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
甍 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

甍  

méng

rafters supporting roof tiles; rafters supporting tiles; ridge of a roof

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

7161st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Unicode

U+750D

Shuowen

“甍，屋棟也。从瓦，夢省聲。”


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