冥
冥 — myeong
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 어두울 명
- Romanization
- myeong
- English
- dark, gloomy, night; deep
- Mandarin
- míng
- Japanese on'yomi
- メイ, ミョウ, ベキ, ベン, メン
- Japanese kun'yomi
- くら.い
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Secondary (Jōyō)
- Newspaper frequency
- #2,349 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 冖 (14, 8 residual)
- Unicode
- U+51A5
How 冥 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 冥 as a ideographic compound involving 冖, 日, 廾.
Korean example words with 冥
- 명찰冥刹 Korean gloss: 사람의 명복을 비는 절
- 명벌冥罰 Korean gloss: 신령과 부처가 내리는 벌
- 명복冥福 Korean gloss: 죽은 뒤 저승에서 받는 복
- 명부冥府 Korean gloss: 사람이 죽은 뒤에 심판을 받는 곳
- 명상冥想 Korean gloss: 고요히 눈을 감고 깊이 생각함. 또는 그런 생각
- 명호冥護 Korean gloss: 드러나지 않는 가운데 신명(神明)이 보호함. 또는 그런 보호
- 명완하다冥頑 Korean gloss: 사리에 어둡고 완고하다
- 완명하다頑冥 Korean gloss: 고집이 세고 사리에 어둡다
- 매명하다昧冥 Korean gloss: 어떠한 일에 잘 통하지 못하여 모르는 상태에 있다
- 명상가冥想家 Korean gloss: 명상을 잘하는 사람
- 명상서冥想書 Korean gloss: 명상과 관련된 서적
- 명상법冥想法 Korean gloss: 고요히 눈을 감고 깊이 생각하는 방법
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 冥
- 冥利みょうり providence; luck; favor
- 冥福めいふく happiness in the next world; heavenly bliss; repose of one's soul
- 冥界めいかい hades; realm of the dead
- 冥境めいきょう shades of the dead
- 冥土めいど the underworld; the other world; realm of the dead
- 冥罰みょうばつ retribution; divine punishment
- 冥府めいふ realm of the dead; the other world; underworld
- 冥暗めいあん gloom; shade
- 冥々めいめい dark; invisible
- 幽冥ゆうめい semidarkness; deep and strange; hades
- 冥加みょうが divine protection; divine blessing; providence
- 晦冥かいめい darkness
Characters sharing the phonetic 冥
Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike. Most of this group are read “명” in Korean.
Other hanja read “명”
Other hanja with radical 冖
Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences