Chinese Character Wiki
蒙

méng, měng, mēng

cover

Original meaning: 

a parasitic vine

Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 冡 represents the sound. Originally the name of a plant, later meanings coincide with the original meaning of 冡 (to cover).

Components
艹 meaning component

艹  Meaning component

cao, cǎo

  

grass

冡 sound component

冡  Sound component

méng

  

to cover

Evolution

蒙 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
蒙 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
蒙 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

蒙  

méng

cover; ignorant; suffer; mongolia; to cover; to suffer (misfortune); to receive (a favor); to cheat

蒙  

Méng

surname Meng

蒙  

Měng

Mongol ethnic group; abbr. for Mongolia 蒙古國|蒙古国[Měng​gǔ​guó]; Taiwan pr. [Méng]

蒙  

mēng

(knocked) unconscious; dazed; stunned

蒙 (濛) 

méng

drizzle; mist

蒙 (矇) 

mēng

to deceive; to hoodwink; to make a wild guess

蒙 (矇) 

méng

blind; dim-sighted

Most common words with 蒙
Freq.
Word
Meaning

蒙

to cover

蒙古

Mongolia

内蒙古

Inner Mongolia

荷尔蒙

hormone (loanword)

蒙蔽

to deceive

Component uses

Sound component in 9 characters (0 verified)

濛 矇 朦 檬 蠓 艨 礞 懞 曚

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*mˤoŋ

muwng

méng

cover (v.)


Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 24.3793% of movies

1043rd most common character in movies

1039th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+8499

Shuowen

“蒙，王女也。从艸，冡聲。”


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