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夢

mèng

dream

Phonosemantic compound. 瞢 represents the sound and 夕 represents the meaning.

Components
瞢 sound,remnant component

瞢  Sound Remnant component

méng

  

eyesight obscured

夕 meaning component

夕  Meaning component

xī

  

evening

Evolution

夢 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
夢 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
夢 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
夢 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
夢 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

梦 (夢) 

mèng

dream; visionary; wishful; CL:場|场[cháng],個|个[gè]; (bound form) to dream

Most common words with 夢
Freq.
Word
Meaning

梦

dream

梦想

dream

做梦

to dream

噩梦

nightmare

梦幻

dream

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*C.məŋ-s

mjuwngH

mèng

dream


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 54.9896% of movies

600th most common character in movies

865th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

梦

Unicode

U+5922

Shuowen

“夢，不明也。从夕，瞢省聲。”


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