铭
míng HSK7

inscribe

铭 (銘) míng
engrave verb
to engrave or carve characters or patterns into a hard surface, often used metaphorically for memory

他打算将获胜者的名字铭在石碑上。

tā dǎ​suàn jiāng huò​shèng zhě de míng​zi míng zài shí​bēi shàng.

He intends to engrave the winner's name on the stone tablet.

motto noun
an inscribed motto or a piece of commemorative writing

这篇墓志铭记录了这位将军的一生。

zhè piān mù​zhì míng jì​lù le zhè wèi jiāng​jūn de yī​shēng.

This epitaph records the life of the general.

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