朦

See also: 蒙 and 䑃

朦	U+6726, 朦 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6726

← 朥
[U+6725]

CJK Unified Ideographs

朧 →
[U+6727]

Translingual

Han character

朦 (Kangxi radical 74, 月+14 in traditional Chinese and Korean, 月+13 in simplified Chinese and Japanese, 18 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 17 strokes in simplified Chinese and Japanese, cangjie input 月廿月人 (BTBO), four-corner 7423₂, composition ⿰月蒙)

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 507, character 3
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14409
Dae Jaweon: page 888, character 6
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2115, character 8
Unihan data for U+6726

Chinese

trad.		朦
simp. ^#		朦
alternative forms		䑃

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 朦
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (冡) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
蒙	*moːŋ
冡	*moːŋ
濛	moːŋ, moːŋʔ
艨	moːŋ, moːŋs
朦	moːŋ, moːŋʔ
矇	*moːŋ
饛	*moːŋ
檬	*moːŋ
鸏	moːŋ, moːŋʔ
幪	*moːŋ
蠓	moːŋ, moːŋʔ
靀	*moːŋ
曚	*moːŋʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *moːŋ, *moːŋʔ) : semantic 月 (“moon”) + phonetic 蒙 (OC *moːŋ).

Unlike most other characters with a 月 (yuè)-like component on the left, this character's 月 (yuè) is not a simplification of 肉; 朦朧／朦胧 (ménglóng) was originally used in reference to the moon.

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): méng (meng²)

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄥˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): mung⁴
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): morng²
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bông
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶mon

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: méng
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄥˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: méng
  - Wade–Giles: mêng²
  - Yale: méng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: meng
  - Palladius: мэн (mɛn)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɤŋ³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: mung⁴
  - Yale: mùhng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: mung⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: mung⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mʊŋ²¹/
Puxian Min
- (Putian, Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: morng²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɒŋ¹³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bông
  - Tâi-lô: bông
  - Phofsit Daibuun: boong
  - IPA (Xiamen): /bɔŋ²⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /bɔŋ²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /bɔŋ¹³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /bɔŋ²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /bɔŋ²³/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁶mon
  - MiniDict: mon^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³mon
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /moŋ²³/

Middle Chinese: muwng, muwngX

Rime
Character	朦	朦
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	明 (4)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	東 (1)	東 (1)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	莫紅切	莫孔切
Baxter	muwng	muwngX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/muŋ/	/muŋ^X/
Pan Wuyun	/muŋ/	/muŋ^X/
Shao Rongfen	/muŋ/	/muŋ^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/məwŋ/	/məwŋ^X/
Li Rong	/muŋ/	/muŋ^X/
Wang Li	/muŋ/	/muŋ^X/
Bernhard Karlgren	/muŋ/	/muŋ^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	méng	měng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mung⁴	mung⁵

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*moːŋ/, /*moːŋʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	朦	朦
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	8973	8984
Phonetic component	冡	冡
Rime group	東	東
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	蒙	蠓
Old Chinese	/*moːŋ/	/*moːŋʔ/

Definitions

朦

(of moonlight) hazy; dim
朦朧／朦胧 ― ménglóng ― hazy
^† to cover

Compounds

References

莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “朦”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 155.

Japanese

Kanji

朦

(Hyōgai kanji)

dim, obscure (of moonlight)

Readings

Go-on: む (mu)
Kan-on: ぼう (bō)
Kan’yō-on: もう (mō)
Kun: おぼろ (oboro, 朦)

Compounds

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 朦 (MC muwng|muwngX).

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

朦

Wikisource

朦 (eumhun 흐릴 몽 (heuril mong))

hanja form^? of 몽 (“Used in 몽롱(朦朧) (mongnong)”)

Compounds

농몽 (朧朦, nongmong)
몽롱 (朦朧, mongnong)
몽혼 (朦昏, monghon)

Vietnamese

Han character

朦: Hán Nôm readings: mông, mồng

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