See also:
U+94ED, 铭
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-94ED

[U+94EC]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+94EE]

Translingual

Etymology

Simplified from ().

In current form Phono-semantic compound (形聲) : semantic  (metal) + phonetic  (OC *meŋ) – engrave in metal. Note that 名 means “name”, hence connotations of “engrave a name in metal”.

Han character

(radical 167, +6, 11 strokes, cangjie input 金弓戈口 (CNIR) or 人心弓戈口 (OPNIR) or X金弓戈口 (XCNIR), composition)

References


Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of – see (“inscribe, engrave; inscription; etc.”).
(This character, , is the simplified form of .)
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