Chinese Character Wiki

鳴

míng

cry of bird or animal

The sound 口 a bird 鳥 makes

Components
口 meaning component

口  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

鳥 meaning component

鳥  Meaning component

niǎo, diǎo

  

bird

Evolution

鳴 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
鳴 Bronze script Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
鳴 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鳴 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
鳴 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

鸣 (鳴) 

míng

cry of bird or animal; make sound; to cry (of birds, animals and insects); to make a sound; to voice (one's gratitude, grievance etc)

Most common words with 鳴
Freq.
Word
Meaning

鸣

to cry (of birds, animals and insects)

共鸣

resonance (physics)

雷鸣

thunder rolls

轰鸣

rumble

一鸣惊人

to amaze the world with a single brilliant feat (idiom); an overnight celebrity

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*m.reŋ

mjaeng

míng

cry (of birds or animals)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 5.5582% of movies

2317th most common character in movies

1680th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Simplified

鸣

Unicode

U+9CF4

Shuowen

“鳴，鳥聲也。从鳥，从口。”


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