盲めくら

See also: 𥇋

盲めくら U+76F2, 盲 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-76F2 ← 盱 [U+76F1] CJK Unified Ideographs 盳 → [U+76F3]

Translingual

Han character

盲めくら (Kangxi radical 109, 目め+3, 8 strokes, cangjie input 卜ぼく女おんな月山がっさん (YVBU), four-corner 0060₁, composition ⿱亡ほろび目め)

1. blind
2. unperceptive, shortsighted

Derived characters

• 𰇸, 𡞙, 𱦼, 𥇋, 䗈, 𨌶, 𦱋, 䈍, 𤷐

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 800, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23132
• Dae Jaweon: page 1214, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2469, character 19
• Unihan data for U+76F2

Chinese

trad.		盲めくら
simp. #		盲めくら
alternative forms		盳 𥇋 𤷐 朚 𰥲 盳 𥇋 𤷐 朚 𰥲 瞢

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 盲めくら
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (亡ほろび) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
忙せわし	*maːŋ
芒すすき	*maːŋ, *maŋ
茫	*maːŋ
恾	*maːŋ
吂	*maːŋ, *maːŋs
汒	*maːŋ, *maŋs
朚	*maːŋ, *hmaːŋ, *maŋ, *mraːŋ, *mraːŋs
邙	*maːŋ, *maŋ
杗	*maːŋ, *maŋ
荒あら	*hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋs
肓	*hmaːŋ
衁	*hmaːŋ
巟	*hmaːŋ
詤	*hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋʔ, *hmaŋʔ
慌	*hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋʔ
謊	*hmaːŋʔ
喪も	*smaːŋs, *smaːŋ
亡ほろび	*maŋ
望もち	*maŋ, *maŋs
莣	*maŋ
朢	*maŋ, *maŋs
鋩	*maŋ
硭	*maŋ
忘	*maŋ, *maŋs
网	*mlaŋʔ
罔	*mlaŋʔ
蛧	*maŋʔ
網あみ	*mlaŋʔ
輞	*maŋʔ
棢	*maŋʔ
惘	*maŋʔ
菵	*maŋʔ
誷	*maŋʔ
魍	*maŋʔ
妄	*maŋs
盲めくら	*mraːŋ
蝱	*mraːŋ
虻あぶ	*mraːŋ
氓	*mraːŋ
甿	*mraːŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲けいせい／形声けいせい, OC *mraːŋ) : phonetic 亡ほろび (OC *maŋ) + semantic 目め (“eye”). Also Ideogrammic compound (會意かいい／会意かいい) : semantic 亡ほろび (“to perish”) + semantic 目め (“eye”) - go blind (by losing your eye)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): máng (mang²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄤˊ

• Cantonese

  (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): maang⁴

  (Taishan, Wiktionary): mang³

• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): mòng / mô

  (Meixian, Guangdong): mang²

• Jin (Wiktionary): mon¹
• Northern Min (KCR): mǎng
• Eastern Min (BUC): màng
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): ma² / morng²
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): bông / mê / mî / mêe / mô͘

  (Teochew, Peng'im): mang⁵ / mêng⁵ / mê⁵

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶maon
• Xiang (Changsha, Wiktionary): man²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: máng
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄤˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: máng
    • Wade–Giles: mang²
    • Yale: máng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mang
    • Palladius: ман (man)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɑŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: maang⁴
    • Yale: màahng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: maang⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: mang⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /maːŋ²¹/
  • (Taishanese, Taicheng)
    • Wiktionary: mang³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ᵐbaŋ²²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: mòng / mô
    • Hakka Romanization System: mong^ˇ / mo^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: mong² / mo¹
    • Sinological IPA: /moŋ¹¹/, /mo²⁴/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: mang²
    • Sinological IPA: /maŋ¹¹/
• Jin
  • (Taiyuan)⁺
    • Wiktionary: mon¹
    • Sinological IPA (old-style): /mɒ̃¹¹/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: mǎng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /maŋ²¹/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: màng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /maŋ⁵³/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian, Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: ma²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ma¹³/
  • (Putian, Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: morng²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɒŋ¹³/

Note:

• morng2 - literary;
• ma2 - vernacular.

• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bông
    • Tâi-lô: bông
    • Phofsit Daibuun: boong
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /bɔŋ¹³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei): /bɔŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /bɔŋ²³/
  • (Hokkien: Kaohsiung)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mê
    • Tâi-lô: mê
    • Phofsit Daibuun: mee
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /mẽ²³/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Taipei, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mî
    • Tâi-lô: mî
    • Phofsit Daibuun: mii
    • IPA (Quanzhou, Taipei, Xiamen): /mĩ²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mêe
    • Tâi-lô: mêe
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /mɛ̃¹³/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mô͘
    • Tâi-lô: môo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: moo
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /mɔ̃²³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /mɔ̃²⁴/

Note:

• bông - literary;
• mê/mî/mêe - vernacular.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: mang⁵ / mêng⁵ / mê⁵
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: mâng / mêng / mê
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /maŋ⁵⁵/, /meŋ⁵⁵/, /me⁵⁵/

Note:

• mang5/mêng5 - literary;
• mê5 - vernacular (dialectal usage - 青あお盲めくら, 雀すずめ盲めくら).

• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶maon
    • MiniDict: maon^去さ
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³maan
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /mɑ̃²³/
• Xiang
  • (Changsha)
    • Wiktionary: man²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /man¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: maeng

Rime
Character	盲めくら
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲こえ)	明あきら (4)
Final (韻いん)	庚かのえ (109)
Tone (調しらべ)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開ひらき合あい)	Open
Division (等ひとし)	II
Fanqie	武たけ庚かのえ切きり
Baxter	maeng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mˠæŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/mᵚaŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/maŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/maɨjŋ/
Li Rong	/mɐŋ/
Wang Li	/mɐŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/mɐŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	méng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mang4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*mˤ<r>aŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*mraːŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	盲めくら
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	máng
Middle Chinese	‹ mæng ›
Old Chinese	/*mˁ<r>aŋ/
English	blind
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	盲めくら
Reading #	1/1
No.	12689
Phonetic component	亡ほろび
Rime group	陽ひ
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	盲めくら
Old Chinese	/*mraːŋ/

Definitions

盲めくら

1. blind
2. (figurative) lacking understanding or common sense
3. person who is blind
4. person who is illiterate
5. carelessly; blindly

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 瞎眼 (“(to be) blind”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		瞽, 盲めくら
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		失明しつめい, 瞎眼, 瞎
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	瞎眼
	Malaysia	瞎, 盲めくら
	Singapore	瞎, 盲めくら
Cantonese	Guangzhou	盲めくら, 盲めくら眼め
	Hong Kong	盲めくら, 盲めくら眼め
	Singapore (Guangfu)	盲めくら
Hakka	Meixian	瞎, 盲めくら
	Wuhua (Huacheng)	眼め瞎
	Luhe	目め瞎
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	目め瞨, 瞨目, 青あお盲めくら, 瞎目
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	目め瞨, 目め瞎, 青あお盲めくら, 瞎目
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	目め瞨, 瞨目, 青あお盲めくら, 瞎目
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	目め瞨, 瞨目, 青あお盲めくら, 瞎目
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	目め瞨, 瞨目, 青あお盲めくら, 瞎目
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	青あお盲めくら
Northern Min	Jian'ou	瞎
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	青あお盲めくら
Southern Min	Xiamen	青あお盲めくら
	Quanzhou	青あお盲めくら
	Zhangzhou	青あお盲めくら
	Taipei	青あお盲めくら
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	青あお盲めくら
	Kaohsiung	青あお盲めくら
	Yilan	青あお盲めくら
	Changhua (Lukang)	青あお盲めくら
	Taichung	青あお盲めくら
	Tainan	青あお盲めくら
	Hsinchu	青あお盲めくら
	Kinmen	青あお盲めくら
	Penghu (Magong)	青あお盲めくら
	Penang (Hokkien)	青あお盲めくら
	Singapore (Hokkien)	青あお盲めくら
	Manila (Hokkien)	青あお盲めくら
	Pingnan (Pingtian)	青あお盲めくら
	Chaozhou	青あお盲めくら
	Shantou	青あお盲めくら
	Shantou (Chenghai)	青あお盲めくら
	Shantou (Chaoyang)	青あお盲めくら
	Jieyang	青あお盲めくら
	Haifeng	青あお盲めくら
	Leizhou	青あお盲めくら
	Wenchang	青あお盲めくら
	Singapore (Hainanese)	青あお盲めくら
Puxian Min	Putian	青あお盲めくら
Central Min	Yong'an	瞎
Zhongshan Min	Zhongshan (Longdu, Shaxi)	盲めくら

See also

• 聾ろう／聋 (lóng, “deaf”), 啞／哑 (yǎ, “mute”)

Compounds

• 以盲辨べん色しょく (yǐmángbiànsè)
• 偏へん盲めくら
• 問とい道どう於盲／问道于盲
• 夜盲症やもうしょう (yèmángzhèng)
• 導しるべ盲めくら／导盲 (dǎománg)
• 導しるべ盲めくら犬けん／导盲犬けん (dǎomángquǎn)
• 導しるべ盲めくら磚／导盲砖 (dǎomángzhuān)
• 導しるべ盲めくら道どう／导盲道どう (dǎomángdào)
• 心こころ盲めくら
• 捉盲盲めくら
• 摸盲盲めくら
• 文盲もんもう (wénmáng)
• 晦みそ盲めくら
• 晦みそ盲めくら否いな塞ふさが (huìmángpǐsè)
• 有ゆう目め如盲
• 有ゆう眼め如盲
• 求道きゅうどう於盲／求道きゅうどう于盲
• 法ほう盲めくら (fǎmáng)
• 發はつ雞盲／发鸡盲めくら
• 盲人もうじん (mángrén)
• 盲人もうじん把わ燭しょく／盲人もうじん把わ烛
• 盲人もうじん按摩あんま (mángrén ànmó)
• 盲人もうじん摸象 (mángrénmōxiàng)
• 盲人もうじん瞎馬／盲人もうじん瞎马 (mángrénxiāmǎ)
• 盲人もうじん說せつ象ぞう／盲人もうじん说象 (mángrén shuō xiàng)
• 盲人もうじん讀物よみもの／盲人もうじん读物
• 盲人もうじん路ろ
• 盲人もうじん電腦でんのう／盲人もうじん电脑
• 盲信もうしん (mángxìn)
• 盲めくら兒じ／盲めくら儿
• 盲めくら公おおやけ鏡きょう／盲めくら公こう镜 (mánggōngjìng)
• 盲動もうどう／盲めくら动 (mángdòng)
• 盲めくら婚こん啞嫁／盲めくら婚こん哑嫁 (mánghūnyǎjià)
• 盲めくら子こ (mángzi)
• 盲めくら字じ (mángzì)
• 盲めくら幹みき／盲めくら干ひ (mánggàn)
• 盲從もうじゅう／盲めくら从 (mángcóng)
• 盲めくら文ぶん (mángwén)
• 盲めくら棋 (mángqí)
• 盲めくら溝みぞ／盲めくら沟
• 盲めくら盒 (mánghé)
• 盲目もうもく (mángmù)
• 盲目もうもく行事ぎょうじ
• 盲めくら眼め無む珠たま／盲めくら眼め无珠
• 盲者もうしゃ得とく鏡きょう／盲者もうしゃ得とく镜
• 盲めくら胞
• 盲腸もうちょう／盲めくら肠 (mángcháng)
• 盲腸炎もうちょうえん／盲めくら肠炎 (mángchángyán)
• 盲めくら蛇へび (mángshé)
• 盲めくら詞し／盲めくら词
• 盲めくら風ふう／盲めくら风 (mángfēng)
• 盲めくら駕が／盲めくら驾
• 盲めくら鰻うなぎ／盲めくら鳗 (mángmán)
• 盲點もうてん／盲点もうてん (mángdiǎn)
• 眾盲摸象／众盲摸象 (zhòngmángmōxiàng)
• 科か盲めくら (kēmáng)
• 聾ろう盲めくら瘖啞／聋盲瘖哑
• 色盲しきもう (sèmáng)
• 迴盲瓣べん／回かい盲めくら瓣べん (huímángbàn)
• 雪盲せつもう (xuěmáng)
• 青あお盲めくら (qīngmáng)

 

References

• “盲めくら”, in 漢語かんご多功たこう能のう字じ庫こ (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港ほんこん中ちゅう文ぶん大學だいがく (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 莆田市し荔城区く档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “盲めくら”, in 莆仙方かた言文げんぶん读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 151.

Japanese

Kanji

盲めくら

(Jōyō kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: みょう (myō)^{←みやう (myau, historical)}
• Kan-on: もう (mō, Jōyō)^{←まう (mau, historical)}
• Kun: めくら (mekura, 盲めくら)、めしい (meshii, 盲めくら)^{←めしひ (mesifi, めしひ, historical)}

Compounds

Compounds

• 文盲もんもう(もんもう) (monmō)
• 色盲しきもう(しきもう) (shikimō)
• 盲人もうじん(もうじん) (mōjin)
• 盲めくら牌ぱい(もうぱい) (mōpai)
• 盲学校もうがっこう(もうがっこう) (mōgakkō)
• 盲信もうしん(もうしん) (mōshin)
• 盲点もうてん(もうてん) (mōten)
• 盲従もうじゅう(もうじゅう) (mōjū)
• 盲めくら啞(もうあ) (mōa) (盲唖もうあ(もうあ) (mōa))
• 盲動もうどう(もうどう) (mōdō)
• 盲愛もうあい(もうあい) (mōai)
• 盲導犬もうどうけん(もうどうけん) (mōdōken)
• 盲めくら鰻うなぎ(めくらうなぎ) (mekuraunagi)
• 盲目もうもく(もうもく) (mōmoku)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
盲めくら
めくら Grade: S
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 盲めくら – see the following entry.

【めくら】 [noun] (likely offensive) blindness [noun] (likely offensive) blind person [noun] (likely offensive) ignorance [noun] (likely offensive) ignorant person; an ignoramus Alternative spelling 瞽

(This term, 盲めくら, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
盲めくら
めしい Grade: S
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 盲めくら – see the following entry.

【めしい】 [noun] (dated, likely offensive) blindness [noun] (dated, likely offensive) blind person Alternative spelling 瞽

(This term, 盲めくら, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
盲めくら
もう Grade: S
kan'on

From Middle Chinese 盲めくら (MC maeng).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) もー [móꜜò] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [mo̞ː]

Noun

盲めくら(もう) • (mō) ^{←まう (mau)?}

1. blindness
2. blind person

Synonyms

• (blindness): 盲目もうもく(もうもく) (mōmoku)
• (blind person): 盲人もうじん(もうじん) (mōjin)

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “blindness”): 晴眼せいがん(せいがん) (seigan)
• (antonym(s) of “blind person”): 晴眼せいがん者しゃ(せいがんしゃ) (seigansha)

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 盲めくら (MC maeng). Recorded as Middle Korean ᄆᆡᇰ (moyng) (Yale: moyng) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙くんもう字じ會かい / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [mɛ(ː)ŋ] ~ [me̞(ː)ŋ]
• Phonetic hangul: [맹(ː)/멩(ː)]
  • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

Hanja

Wikisource

盲めくら (eumhun 소경 맹 (sogyeong maeng))

1. hanja form^? of 맹 (“blind”)

Compounds

Compounds

• 맹인 (盲人もうじん, maeng'in)
• 맹장 (盲腸もうちょう, maengjang)
• 맹점 (盲點もうてん, maengjeom)
• 문맹 (文盲もんもう, munmaeng)
• 색맹 (色盲しきもう, saengmaeng)
• 맹자 (盲者もうしゃ, maengja)
• 맹동 (盲動もうどう, maengdong)
• 맹신 (盲信もうしん, maengsin)
• 맹종 (盲從もうじゅう, maengjong)

References

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際こくさい退すさ溪けい學會がっかい 大邱たいきゅう慶けい北きた支部しぶ) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子でんし字典じてん. [2]

Vietnamese

Han character

盲めくら: Hán Nôm readings: manh

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• Nôm: manh

References

• Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
• Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
• Vũ Văn Kính: Đại Tự Điển Chữ Nôm, NXB Văn Nghệ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999