míng

lucky place

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Components

Meaning component
cao, cǎo grass

grass

Sound component
míng, mián, miàn dark

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangmeːŋ
meːɡ

說文解字

析蓂,大薺也。从艸冥聲。

Sources

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