méng
bud
Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 明 represents the sound.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 0.8970% of movies
3356th most common character in movies
2879th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+840C |
Shuowen | “萌,艸芽也。从艸,明聲。” |
Sources
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