銘

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See also: 铭
銘 U+9298, 銘
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9298
← 銗
[U+9297] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 銙 →
[U+9299]

Translingual

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Han character

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銘 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+6, 14 strokes, cangjie input 金弓戈口 (CNIR), four-corner 87160, composition ⿰釒名)

Descendants

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1305, character 7
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40385
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1807, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4200, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+9298

Chinese

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trad. 銘
simp. 铭

Glyph origin

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Historical forms of the character 銘
Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (名) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
名 *meŋ
洺 *meŋ
眳 *meŋʔ, *meːŋʔ
詺 *meŋs
銘 *meːŋ
茗 *meːŋʔ
酩 *meːŋʔ
姳 *meːŋʔ

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *meːŋ) : semantic 金 (“metal”) + phonetic 名 (OC *meŋ, “name”) – to engrave in metal.

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character 銘
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 青 (125)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 莫經切
Baxter meng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/meŋ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/meŋ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/mɛŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/mɛjŋ/
Li
Rong 		/meŋ/
Wang
Li 		/mieŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/mieŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		míng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		ming4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 銘
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		míng
Middle
Chinese 		‹ meng ›
Old
Chinese 		/*mˁeŋ/
English inscription

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 銘
Reading # 1/1
No. 9182
Phonetic
component 		名
Rime
group 		耕
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		冥
Old
Chinese 		/*meːŋ/

Definitions

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銘

  1. inscription
    墓誌銘／墓志铭  ―  mùzhìmíng  ―  epitaph
    座右銘／座右铭  ―  zuòyòumíng  ―  motto
  2. to inscribe; to engrave
    銘記／铭记  ―  míngjì  ―  to always remember
    刻骨銘心／刻骨铭心  ―  kègǔmíngxīn  ―  unforgettable; etched in one's memory

Compounds

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References

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  • 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “铭”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 159.

Japanese

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Kanji

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銘

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. inscription

Readings

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  • Go-on: みょう (myō)←みやう (myau, historical)
  • Kan-on: めい (mei, Jōyō)
  • Nanori: たか (taka)、み (mi)、め (me)


Kanji in this term
銘
めい
Grade: S
on'yomi

Etymology

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From Middle Chinese 銘／铭 (meng, “inscription”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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銘(めい) • (mei) 

  1. inscription

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

Korean

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Hanja

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銘 (eumhun 새길 명 (saegil myeong))

  1. hanja form? of 명 (“inscribe, engrave”)
  2. hanja form? of 명 (“unforgettably”)

Vietnamese

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Han character

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銘: Hán Nôm readings: minh, triệu

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References

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