míng

drizzling rain

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Meaning and sound

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Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangmeːŋ
meːŋʔ
Unicodemeng

說文解字

《說文》:“溟,小雨溟溟也。从水,冥聲。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica