名
míngTraditional: 名
Translation
name, fame, measure word for people
Word origin
The character combines 夕 (dusk) and 口 (mouth), an image of calling out one's name in the dark when a face cannot be seen. From this came the senses of name and, by extension, reputation.
- Origin
- associative compound
- Root
- 夕 (xī, dusk) + 口 (kǒu, mouth)
Stroke order
名
Examples
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Please write down your given name.
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There are thirty students in the class.
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He is a doctor.
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This restaurant is very famous.
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He came first in the competition.
名 (míng) means name or fame, and also serves as the measure word for people. It appears in many compounds such as 名字 and 有名.
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 名.
Used in
Grammar articles
(4)Mandarin Verb Conjugation: Why It Doesn't Exist and What Replaces It
Mandarin Question Formation: 吗, V-Not-V, 还是, and the In-Situ Wh-Word System
Mandarin Resultative Complements: Fusing a Result onto the Verb (看见, 吃完, 找到)
Mandarin Word Order: SVO, Topic-Comment, and the 把 Construction That Reorders Everything
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