méng

to cover

  • edit character approved — "Edit" by Prismcool
    Hint
    Depicts a hat (冃) and tiger skin (虎). Signifies the meaning "cover" by soldiers who fought covered in tiger skins. The 虎 (tiger) component was later reanalyzed as 豕 (pig). Depicts a hat (冃) and tiger skin (虎), conveying the meaning "cover" by soldiers who fought covered in tiger skins. The 虎 (tiger) component was later rewritten as 豕 (pig).
    Components
    • + Iconic Modern form looks like unrelated 豕.
    • - Iconic

    Changed: hint, components

    edit character by Prismcool

  • edit character approved — "Modified explanation" by Prismcool
    Hint
    A hat and tiger skin. Signifies the meaning "cover" by soldiers who fought covered in tiger skins. Depicts a hat (冃) and tiger skin (虎). Signifies the meaning "cover" by soldiers who fought covered in tiger skins. The 虎 (tiger) component was later reanalyzed as 豕 (pig).
    Original meaning
    to cover (empty)
    Components
    • SoundIconic
      • type: sound, meaning sound, iconic
    • Iconic
      • hint: Originally 虎, later 豕. Originally 虎 (tiger), later reanalyzed as 豕 (pig).
      • type: meaning iconic

    Changed: hint, original meaning, components

    edit character by Prismcool

  • edit character approved — "On EDOC the "Baxter GY" Middle Chinese is 'muwng', and all the other GY values are the same as 蒙, so I assumed that would mean it has to have the same OC reconstruction as 蒙." by cochleoid
    Hint
    Depicts a hat (冃) and tiger skin (虎), conveying the meaning "cover" by soldiers who fought covered in tiger skins. The 虎 (tiger) component was later rewritten as 豕 (pig). A hat and tiger skin. Signifies the meaning "cover" by soldiers who fought covered in tiger skins.
    Original meaning
    to cover
    Components
    • SoundMeaning
      • type: sound, iconic sound, meaning
    • + Meaning Originally 虎, later 豕.
    • - Iconic
    Strokes (simplified)
    10 strokes
    10 strokes

    Source: animcjk dong

    Historical pronunciations
    • + OC: *mˤoŋ MC: muwng
    • - zhengzhang

    Changed: gloss, hint, original meaning, verified, components, sources, strokes (simp), fragments (simp), images, pronunciations

    edit character by cochleoid