míng

a town in Shandong province

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartmengmˤeŋ[place name]
Zhengzhangmeːŋ

說文解字

晉邑也。从邑冥聲。《春秋傳》曰:“伐鄍三門。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica