朦

See also: 蒙 and 䑃

朦	U+6726, 朦 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6726

← 朥
[U+6725]

CJK Unified Ideographs

朧 →
[U+6727]

Translingual

Han character

朦 (radical 74, 月+14, 18 strokes, cangjie input 月廿月人 (BTBO), four-corner 7423₂, composition ⿰月蒙)

References

KangXi: page 507, character 3

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14409

Dae Jaweon: page 888, character 6

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2115, character 8

Unihan data for U+6726

Chinese

simp. and trad.		朦
variant forms		䑃

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 朦
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (冡) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
蒙	*moːŋ
冡	*moːŋ
濛	moːŋ, moːŋʔ
艨	moːŋ, moːŋs
朦	moːŋ, moːŋʔ
矇	*moːŋ
饛	*moːŋ
檬	*moːŋ
鸏	moːŋ, moːŋʔ
幪	*moːŋ
蠓	moːŋ, moːŋʔ
靀	*moːŋ
曚	*moːŋʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *moːŋ, *moːŋʔ) : semantic 月 (“moon”) + phonetic 蒙 (OC *moːŋ).

Unlike other characters with a 月-like component on the left, this character's 月 is not a simplification of 肉; 朦朧 was originally used in reference to the moon.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): méng (meng²)

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄥˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): mung⁴
Min Nan (POJ): bông

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: méng
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄥˊ
  - Wade–Giles: mêng²
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: meng
  - IPA ^(key): /mɤŋ³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: mung⁴
  - Yale: mùhng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: mung⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: mung⁴
  - IPA ^(key): /mʊŋ²¹/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bông
  - Tâi-lô: bông
  - Phofsit Daibuun: boong
  - IPA (Xiamen): /bɔŋ²⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /bɔŋ²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /bɔŋ¹³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /bɔŋ²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /bɔŋ²³/

Middle Chinese: /muŋ/, /muŋ^X/▼

Rime
Character	朦	朦
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	明 (4)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	東 (1)	東 (1)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	莫紅切	莫孔切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/muŋ/	/muŋ^X/
Pan Wuyun	/muŋ/	/muŋ^X/
Shao Rongfen	/muŋ/	/muŋ^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/məwŋ/	/məwŋ^X/
Li Rong	/muŋ/	/muŋ^X/
Wang Li	/muŋ/	/muŋ^X/
Bernard Karlgren	/muŋ/	/muŋ^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	méng	měng

Old Chinese▼
(Zhengzhang): /*moːŋ/, /*moːŋʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	朦	朦
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	8973	8984
Phonetic component	冡	冡
Rime group	東	東
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	蒙	蠓
Old Chinese	/*moːŋ/	/*moːŋʔ/

Definitions

朦

Only used in 朦朧／朦胧 (ménglóng).

Japanese

Kanji

朦

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

dim, obscure (of moonlight)

Readings

Go-on: む (mu)
Kan-on: ぼう (bō)
Kan’yō-on: もう (mō)
Kun: おぼろ (oboro, 朦)

Compounds

朦 (もう)朦 (もう), 朦 (もう)々 (もう) (mōmō)
朦 (もう)気 (き) (mōki)
朦沢 (もうさわ) (Mōsawa)
朦 (もう)霧 (む) (mōmu)
朦 (もう)朧 (ろう) (mōrō)
昏 (こん)朦 (もう) (konmō)

Korean

Hanja

朦 • (mong) (hangeul 몽, revised mong, McCune–Reischauer mong, Yale mong)

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Vietnamese

Han character

朦 (mông, mồng)

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