Character: 夢
Modern (Beijing) reading: mèng
Preclassic Old Chinese: mhǝŋs
Classic Old Chinese: mhǝŋh
Western Han Chinese: mhǝŋh
Eastern Han Chinese: mhǝŋh
Early Postclassic Chinese: mhɨ̀ŋ
Middle Postclassic Chinese: mhɨ̀ŋ
Late Postclassic Chinese: mhɨ̀ŋ
Middle Chinese: mǜŋ
English meaning : to dream
Russian meaning[s]: 1) сон, сновидение; видеть сон; грезы, мечты, видения; 2) неясный, смутный
Shuowen gloss: 不明也.從夕.**省聲. [315]
Comments: Also read *mhǝŋ, MC müŋ (FQ 莫中), Pek. méng 'be blind to, unenlightened' (cf. 蒙). Cf. also Viet. mo' 'to dream' (with a loss of the final nasal after a nasal initial). For *mh- cf. Min forms: Xiamen baŋ6, Chaozhou maŋ6, Fuzhou maöŋ5, moŋ5 (cf. also 懵 MC mǜŋ, Fuzhou moŋ5 'dark, obscure, silly').
Radical: 36
Four-angle index: 4153
Karlgren code: 0902 a-c
Vietnamese reading: mộng
Jianchuan Bai: mɨ3
Dali Bai: mɨ3-
Bijiang Bai: mɨ2
