méng
swear
Phonosemantic compound. 皿 represents the meaning and 明 represents the sound.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
méng
swear; oath, covenant, alliance; oath; pledge; union; to ally; league, a subdivision corresponding to prefecture in Inner Mongolia
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*mraŋ | mjaeng | méng | covenant |
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 11.7251% of movies
1552nd most common character in movies
1163rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Unicode | U+76DF |
Shuowen | “，《周禮》曰：‘國有疑則盟。諸侯再相與會，十二歲一，北面詔天之司慎司命。，殺牲歃血，朱盤玉敦，以立牛耳。’从囧，从血。，篆文，从朙。盟，古文从明。” |
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