míng
inscribe
To carve 釒 one's name 名; 名 also provides the pronunciation
Evolution
Bronze script
Early Warring States (~400 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 銘
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to engrave in one's memory | ||
motto | ||
unforgettable | ||
to engrave | ||
a carved inscription |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*mˤeŋ | meng | míng | inscription |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 4.2768% of movies
2617th most common character in movies
2061st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9298 |
Shuowen | 《說文新附》：“銘，記也。从金，名聲。” |
Sources
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