冕 — Chinese character
冕
miǎn
crown; ceremonial cap
- Pinyin
- miǎn
- Radical
- 13 ⼌ (Down Box)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 日 免
- Formation
- pictophonetic — crown; meaning component 冂; sound component 免
- Japanese
- 冕 as a kanji
Common words with 冕
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 卫冕 (衛冕) | wèi miǎn | to defend the crown (in sports championship) |
| 加冕 | jiā miǎn | to crown; coronation |
| 冠冕堂皇 | guān miǎn táng huáng | high-sounding; dignified |
| 日冕 | rì miǎn | stellar corona |
| 冠冕 | guān miǎn | royal crown; official hat |
| 冕冠 | miǎn guān | see 冕 (miǎn) |
| 冕柳莺 (冕柳鶯) | miǎn liǔ yīng | (bird species of China) eastern crowned warbler (Phylloscopus coronatus) |
| 冕雀 | miǎn què | (bird species of China) sultan tit (Melanochlora sultanea) |
| 日冕仪 (日冕儀) | rì miǎn yí | coronagraph |
| 日冕层 (日冕層) | rì miǎn céng | stellar corona |
| 暗冕鹪莺 (暗冕鷦鶯) | àn miǎn jiāo yīng | (bird species of China) rufescent prinia (Prinia rufescens) |
| 轩冕 (軒冕) | xuān miǎn | (literary) curtained carriage and ceremonial cap (symbols of a senior official); (fig.) dignitaries; (literary) to hold an official post |
English words written with 冕
冕 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 7 · Mencius 1 · Zhuangzi 6
- Analects 8.21
- Analects 9.3
- Analects 9.9
- Analects 10.16
- Analects 15.10
- Analects 15.41
- Mencius 6B.6
- Zhuangzi Opening Trunks
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.
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