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冡

méng

to cover

Depicts a hat (冃) and tiger skin (虎), conveying the meaning "cover" by soldiers who fought covered in tiger skins. The 虎 (tiger) component was later rewritten as 豕 (pig).

Components
冃 sound,iconic component

冃  Sound Iconic component

mào

  

cap

虎 iconic component

虎  Iconic component

hǔ

  

tiger

Modern form looks like unrelated 豕.

Evolution

冡 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
冡 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
冡 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
冡 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

冡  

méng

old variant of 蒙[méng]

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)

蒙

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*mˤoŋ

muwng

méng

cover (v.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+51A1

Shuowen

“冡，覆也。从、豕。”


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