冥 — Chinese character
冥
míng
dark, gloomy, night; deep
- Pinyin
- míng
- Radical
- 14 ⼍ (Cover)
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- 冖 日 六
- Formation
- ideographic — The sun 日, covered 冖, with 六 providing the pronunciation
- Japanese
- 冥 as a kanji
Common words with 冥
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 冥想 | míng xiǎng | to meditate; meditation |
| 冥王 | míng wáng | the king of hell |
| 幽冥 | yōu míng | dark; hell |
| 冥界 | míng jiè | ghost world |
| 冥诞 (冥誕) | míng dàn | (formal) posthumous birthday |
| 冥府 | míng fǔ | underworld; hell |
| 冥冥之中 | míng míng zhī zhōng | in the unseen world of spirits; mysteriously and inexorably |
| 苦思冥想 | kǔ sī míng xiǎng | (idiom) to think deeply; to rack one's brains |
| 冥思苦想 | míng sī kǔ xiǎng | see 苦思冥想 (kǔ sī míng xiǎng) |
| 冥婚 | míng hūn | posthumous or ghost marriage (in which at least one of the bride and groom is dead) |
| 冥顽不灵 (冥頑不靈) | míng wán bù líng | (idiom) pigheaded |
| 冥纸 (冥紙) | míng zhǐ | joss paper made to resemble paper money |
English words written with 冥
冥 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Tao Te Ching 1 · I Ching 2 · Zhuangzi 27
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 21
- Hexagram 16
- Hexagram 46
- Zhuangzi Transcendental Bliss
- Zhuangzi The Great Supreme
- Zhuangzi On Letting Alone
- Zhuangzi The Universe
- Zhuangzi The Circling Sky
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