míng

close eyes

One's eyes at night  also provides the pronunciation

Components
目 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

eye

冥 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

míng

  

dark

Evolution

瞑 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
瞑 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

míng

close eyes; to close (the eyes)

Most common words with 瞑
Freq.
Word
Meaning

瞑目

close one's eyes in death and die contentedly

死不瞑目

dead but will not close the eyes (idiom); to die with a remaining grievance

to close (the eyes)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4229th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+7791

Shuowen

“瞑,翕目也。从目、冥,冥亦聲。”


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