(míng) - name, fame, measure word for people in Mandarin

míng

Traditional: 名

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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.

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Appears in 2 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 名.

名字míng zìname (of a person or thing)名单míng dānlist of names, name list, roster

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This word is part of lesson 26.