Chinese Word Entry

Mandarin (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄥˊ
Mandarin (Pinyin): míng
Cantonese (Jyutping): ming4
Definitions:
  1. name

  2. noun (part of speech)

  3. place (eg among winners)

  4. famous

  5. classifier for people


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Chinese characters used in this word

name, noted, distinguished, reputation, rank, title, position
Readings
Mandarin: ㄇㄧㄥˊ (míng), ㄇㄧㄥˋ (mìng)
Cantonese: ming4
Japanese: メイ (mei)、 ミョウ (myou) / な (na)、 -な (-na)、 なのる (nanoru)、 なずける (nazukeru)
Korean: 명 (myeong)
Vietnamese: danh