míng

bright

Evolution

朙 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
朙 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
朙 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
朙 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Definitions

 

míng

bright, clear, intelligent; light, brilliant; to understand; to illustrate; old variant of [míng]

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+6719

Shuowen

“朙,照也。从月,从囧。明,古文朙,从日。”


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