铭
míng HSK7

inscribe

铭 銘 míng
to engrave verb
(bound form) to engrave or carve on a hard surface; often used metaphorically to mean remembering something deeply and forever
inscription noun
(bound form) an inscription on a vessel, stone tablet, or monument, typically used to record achievements or as a personal motto
Ming
the Chinese surname Ming
epigraph
a specific genre of ancient Chinese literature used for praise or warning, such as 陋室铭 lòu​shì​míng

Cross-References

Same as

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,061st most common 33.9 per million
Movie subtitles
2,617th most common 6.87 per million appears in 4% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
0.240 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
4.66 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Traditional
銘
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+94ED

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