冥
míng

dark

冥 míng
dark noun
dark, dim, or obscure

冥色渐起，山林变得一片模糊。

míng sè jiàn qǐ, shān​lín biàn de yī piàn mó​hu.

As dusk fell, the forest became a blur.

deep verb
deep, profound, or mysterious

他陷入了苦苦的冥思之中。

tā xiàn​rù le kǔ​kǔ de míng sī zhī​zhōng.

He fell into deep contemplation.

underworld noun
the world of the dead; the netherworld

民间传说人死后会进入冥界。

mín​jiān chuán​shuō rén sǐ hòu huì jìn​rù míng jiè.

Folklore says that people enter the underworld after death.

stupid idiom
dull, muddled, or lacking in intelligence

他冥顽不灵，不论别人怎么劝都不听。

tā míng​wán​bù​líng, bù​lùn bié​ren zěn​me quàn dōu bù tīng.

He is obstinate and refuses to listen to any advice.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,739th most common 14.0 per million
Movie subtitles
2,407th most common 9.97 per million appears in 3% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
6.59 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
6.76 per million

Details
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+51A5

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)