míng

tea

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
艹 meaning component

  Meaning component

caocǎo

  

grass

is a component form of .

名 sound component

  Sound component

míng

  

name

Evolution

茗 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
茗 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

míng

tea; tea plant; Thea sinensis; young leaves of tea

Most common words with 茗
Freq.
Word
Meaning

Thea sinensis

品茗

to taste tea

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4030th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+8317

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“茗,茶芽也。从艸,名聲。”


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