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Sino-Tibetan etymology :
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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *mrăŋ
Meaning: see, eye-sight
Burmese: mraŋ to see; LB *mraŋ.
Comments: PG *mraŋ; Rawang yaŋ, Trung jaŋ2; Kham ràŋ to see. Sh. 125.
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Character: 明
Modern (Beijing) reading: míng
Preclassic Old Chinese: mraŋ
Classic Old Chinese: mraŋ
Western Han Chinese: mraŋ
Eastern Han Chinese: mreŋ
Early Postclassic Chinese: meŋ
Middle Postclassic Chinese: meŋ
Late Postclassic Chinese: meŋ
Middle Chinese: mäiŋ
English meaning : be bright, enlightened, clear, pure, manifest
Russian meaning[s]: 1) ясный, светлый; просветить; 2) открытый, явный; наружный; проявить, показать; 3) проницательный; умный; понятливый; просвещенный; знаток; понимать; 4) завтра; наутро; днем; 5) зрение; зрячий; перен. дальновидный; 6) Мин; минский (название династии 1368 - 1644 гг.); 7) Мин (фамилия)
Comments: Regular Sino-Viet. is minh; Viet. mai (with a variant mo'i) means 'tomorrow' and may be a colloquial (distorted) borrowing from MC in the special usage: 明日 mäiŋ-ńit 'tomorrow'. For *m- cf. Xiamen mi2, Chaozhou meŋ2, Fuzhou miŋ2, Jianou miŋ2, maŋ2. The original meaning must be 'clear eye-sight' (whence 'bright, pure', etc.); the meaning 'eye-sight' is actually rather widely attested during L. Zhou.
Radical: 72
Four-angle index: 3478
Karlgren code: 0760 a-d
Go-on: miyau
Kan-on: mei
Japanese reading: mei;myō;akari;akarui;akaramu;akiraka;akeru;aku;akuru;akasu
Vietnamese reading: mai
Jianchuan Bai: me4-, mɛ7
Dali Bai: mer4-, mer7
Bijiang Bai: ma7-
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Number: 593
Character: 明
MC description : 梗開三平庚明
ZIHUI: 2494 2525
Beijing: miŋ 12
Jinan: miŋ 12
Xi'an: miŋ 12
Taiyuan: miŋ 1
Hankou: min 12
Chengdu: min 12
Yangzhou: mĩ 12
Suzhou: min 12
Wenzhou: meŋ 12
Changsha: min 12
Shuangfeng: min 12 (lit.); miõ 12
Nanchang: min 31 (lit.); miaŋ 31
Meixian: min 12
Guangzhou: mîŋ 12
Xiamen: bîŋ 12 (lit.); mĩ 12
Chaozhou: meŋ 12
Fuzhou: miŋ 12
Shanghai: miŋ 32
Zhongyuan yinyun: miǝŋ 12
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