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萌

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See also: 萠 and 朝
萌 U+840C, 萌
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-840C
← 萋
[U+840B] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 萍 →
[U+840D]

Translingual

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Han character

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萌 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 廿日月 (TAB), four-corner 44627, composition ⿱艹明)

Derived characters

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1041, character 5
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31265
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1499, character 26
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3233, character 14
  • Unihan data for U+840C

Chinese

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trad. 萌
simp. # 萌
Wikipedia has articles on:
  • 萌 (Written Standard Chinese?)
  • 萌 (Cantonese)
  • Moe (Southern Min)
  • 萌 (Classical)

Glyph origin

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Characters in the same phonetic series (明) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
莔 *mraːŋ, *qʰɯd
明 *mraŋ
盟 *mraŋ, *mraːŋs
萌 *mreːŋ
奣 *ʔmraːŋʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *mreːŋ) : semantic 艹 (“grass; plant”) + phonetic 明 (OC *mraŋ).

Etymology 1

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“to bud; to begin”
Compare Lepcha ᰖᰮ (mlam, “shoots that sprout from stump of tree”) (Schuessler, 2007).
“moe”
Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 萌え (moe).

Pronunciation

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  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 萌
Mandarin Beijing /məŋ³⁵/
Harbin /məŋ²⁴/
Tianjin /məŋ⁴⁵/
Jinan /məŋ⁴²/
Qingdao /məŋ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /məŋ⁴²/
Xi'an /məŋ²⁴/
Xining /mə̃²⁴/
Yinchuan /məŋ⁵³/
Lanzhou /mə̃n⁵³/
Ürümqi /mɤŋ²¹³/
Wuhan /moŋ²¹³/
Chengdu /moŋ³¹/
Guiyang /min²¹/
/moŋ²¹/ 新
Kunming /moŋ³¹/
Nanjing /mən²⁴/
Hefei /məŋ⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /məŋ¹¹/
Pingyao /məŋ¹³/
Hohhot /mə̃ŋ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /mg²³/
Suzhou /mən¹³/
Hangzhou /men²¹³/
Wenzhou /miɛ³¹/
Hui Shexian /mʌ̃⁴⁴/
Tunxi /man⁴⁴/
Xiang Changsha /moŋ¹³/
Xiangtan /min¹²/
Gan Nanchang
Hakka Meixian /men¹¹/
Taoyuan /men¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /mɐŋ²¹/
Nanning /meŋ²¹/
Hong Kong /mɐŋ²¹/
Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /biŋ³⁵/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /mɛiŋ⁵³/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /meiŋ²¹/
Shantou (Teochew) /meŋ⁵⁵/
Haikou (Hainanese) /moŋ³¹/
Rime
Character 萌
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 耕 (117)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 莫耕切
Baxter meang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/mˠɛŋ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/mᵚæŋ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/mɐŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/məɨjŋ/
Li
Rong 		/mɛŋ/
Wang
Li 		/mæŋ/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/mæŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		méng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		mang4
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 萌
Reading # 1/1
No. 9191
Phonetic
component 		明
Rime
group 		耕
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		甍
Old
Chinese 		/*mreːŋ/

Definitions

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萌

  1. to bud; to sprout; to germinate
  2. to begin; to start
  3. beginning; start; harbinger; omen; augury; portent
  4. to happen; to occur; to take place
  5. (ACG) moe: feelings of affection towards a fictional character
  6. (Internet slang, by extension) cute; adorable
    賣萌／卖萌  ―  màiméng  ―  to act cutely
  7. a surname: Meng

Synonyms

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  • (to bud):
  • (to begin):
  • (beginning):
  • (harbinger):
  • (people):

Compounds

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Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

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Definitions

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萌

  1. Used in 蕨萌 (“a grass name”).

Etymology 3

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Pronunciation

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Definitions

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萌

  1. (obsolete) Alternative form of 氓 (“farmer; wanderer”)

References

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  • “萌”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
  • 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “萌”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 154.
  • zi.tools

Japanese

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Kanji

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萌

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

  1. bud, sprout

Readings

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Compounds

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Compounds

Alternative forms

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Etymology 1

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Kanji in this term
萌
きざし
Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 萌 – see the following entry.
【兆きざし】
[noun] sign, omen
Alternative spelling
萌し
(This term, 萌, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Etymology 2

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Proper noun

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萌(きざし) • (Kizashi) 

  1. a female given name
  2. a surname

Etymology 3

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Kanji in this term
萌
もえ
Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

Nominalization of 萌え (moe), the 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 萌(も)える (moeru, “to bud, sprout”).

Proper noun

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萌(もえ) • (Moe) 

  1. a female given name

References

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Korean

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Hanja

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萌 • (maeng) (hangeul 맹, revised maeng, McCune–Reischauer maeng, Yale mayng)

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Vietnamese

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Han character

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萌: Hán Nôm readings: manh, mánh, mảnh, mành

  1. đáng yêu, dễ thương
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