Character: 蒙
Modern (Beijing) reading: méng
Preclassic Old Chinese: mōŋ
Classic Old Chinese: mōŋ
Western Han Chinese: mōŋ
Eastern Han Chinese: mōŋ
Early Postclassic Chinese: mōŋ
Middle Postclassic Chinese: mōŋ
Late Postclassic Chinese: mwōŋ
Middle Chinese: muŋ
English meaning : to cover, darken
Russian meaning[s]: 1) молодой, неопытный; детский; 2) невежественный, темный; вежл. я, мой; 3) неясный, скрытый; 4) получить от высшего, удостоиться; 5) получить, подвергнуться; 6) пренебрегать; рисковать; 7) покрывать; обернуть; заворачивать; 8) Мэн (фамилия); [méng mēng] обманывать, дурачить; одурманить; одуряющий; [měng mēng] сокр. Монголия; монгольский
Comments: For *m- cf. Min forms: Xiamen bɔŋ2, Chaozhou moŋ2, Fuzhou muŋ2, Jianou moŋ9. Also means 'stupidity, ignorance'; one of a number of *MVN-type words with the general meaning 'dark, obscure' etc. (see also 盲, 夢, 儚, 懵). Viet. mù is one of the loanwords having lost the final nasal through dissimilation with the nasal initial; standard Sino-Viet. is mông). We should note that Viet. mù also means 'dense fog' - in which sense it is probably a contamination with another Chinese source, 霧 *mho(k)s q.v.
Radical: 140
Four-angle index: 5579
Karlgren code: 1181 a
Vietnamese reading: mù
Shijing occurrences: 37.3, 47.3
