mèi

obscure

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
日 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

sun

未 sound component

  Sound component

wèi

  

not yet

Evolution

昧 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

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

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

mèi

obscure, dark; darken; to conceal; dark

Most common words with 昧
Freq.
Word
Meaning

暧昧

vague

冒昧

bold

愚昧

ignorant

dark

暧昧关系

affair

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*mˤ[u][t]-s

mwojH

mèi

dusk; dark


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 5.1578% of movies

2536th most common character in movies

2376th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+6627

Shuowen

“昧爽,旦明也。从日,未聲。一曰闇也。”


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