Character: 望
Modern (Beijing) reading: wàng
Preclassic Old Chinese: maŋs
Classic Old Chinese: maŋh
Western Han Chinese: maŋh
Eastern Han Chinese: mwaŋh
Early Postclassic Chinese: mwàŋ
Middle Postclassic Chinese: mwàŋ
Late Postclassic Chinese: mwàŋ
Middle Chinese: mwàŋ
English meaning : to look at from afar, look for, gaze at
Russian meaning[s]: 1) смотреть вдаль; наблюдать; 2) мечтать, надеяться; 3) слава, репутация; 4) стар. день полнолуния, 15-е число лунного месяца; 5) вм. 往
Comments: Also read *maŋ, MC mwaŋ (FQ 武方) id. Also used for a homonymous *maŋ(s) 'the full moon; name of a sacrifice'. Standard Sino-Viet. is vọng; a more archaic loan is Viet. mong 'to expect, desire'. Viet. mùng, mồng 'first decade of the month' ( = 'full moon') has parallels in Austroasiatic (PAA *mɔŋ 'moon, month') which is probably the source of OC *maŋ(s) 'full moon'. For *m- cf. Min forms: Xiamen bɔŋ6, Chaozhou mo6.
Radical: 74
Four-angle index: 307
Karlgren code: 0742 m-n
Vietnamese reading: mong
Shijing occurrences: 28.1, 28.2, 28.3, 50.2, 58.2
