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冥

míng

Character

What 冥 means

1. dark
2. deep
3. stupid
4. the underworld

Other readings

冥 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• míngold variant of {冥|míng}

Example sentences

• 思考会打扰冥想。
  Thoughts disturb meditation.
• 俄罗斯比冥王星大。
  éluósī bǐ Míngwángxīng dà.
  Russia is larger than Pluto.
• 苍蝇和蚊子干扰了他的冥想。
  Cāngying hé wénzi gānrǎo le tā de míngxiǎng.
  Flies and mosquitoes interfered with his meditation.
• 他过去时常在早上的时候冥想。
  Tā guòqù shícháng zài zǎoshang de shíhou míngxiǎng.
  He used to meditate in the morning.
• 当我在你这个年纪时，冥王星是行星。
  Dāng wǒ zài nǐ zhège niánjì shí, Míngwángxīng shì xíngxīng.
  When I was your age, Pluto was a planet.
• 我在你这个年纪的时候，冥王星是一颗行星。
  Wǒ zài nǐ zhège niánjì de shíhou, Míngwángxīng shì yī kē xíngxīng.
  When I was your age, Pluto was a planet.

Words starting with 冥

• 冥想míng xiǎngto meditate; meditation
• 冥合míng héto agree implicitly; of one mind; views coincide without a word exchanged
• 冥寿míng shòubirthday of a deceased person
• 冥婚míng hūnposthumous or ghost marriage (in which at least one of the bride and groom is dead)
• 冥币míng bìfalse paper money burned as an offering to the dead
• 冥府míng fǔunderworld; hell
• 冥王míng wángthe king of hell
• 冥界míng jièghost world
• 冥福míng fúafterlife happiness
• 冥纸míng zhǐjoss paper made to resemble paper money
• 冥诞míng dàn(formal) posthumous birthday
• 冥道míng dàopath to the underworld…
• 冥钱míng qiánjoss paper made to resemble paper money
• 冥顽míng wánstupidly obstinate
• 冥王星Míng wáng xīngPluto (dwarf planet)
• 冥冥之中míng míng zhī zhōngin the unseen world of spirits; mysteriously and inexorably
• 冥顽不灵míng wán bù líng(idiom) pigheaded
• 冥钞míng chāofalse paper money burned as an offering to the dead
• 冥思苦想míng sī kǔ xiǎngsee 苦思冥想
• 冥思苦索míng sī kǔ suǒsee 苦思冥想

Words containing 冥

• 苦思冥想kǔ sī míng xiǎng(idiom) to think deeply; to rack one's brains
• 幽冥yōu míngdark; hell; netherworld
• 风雨晦冥fēng yǔ huì míngconditions of extreme adversity (idiom)
• 杳冥yǎo míngdim and dusky; far and indistinct
• 邈冥冥miǎo míng míngfar off; distant
• 窈冥yǎo míngvariant of 杳冥

Characters that look like 冥

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 第dì(prefix indicating ordinal number, as in 第六…
• 莫mòdo not; there is none who
• 宴yàn(bound form) to entertain at a banquet; (bound form) banquet; feast; (literary) peaceful…
• 祟suìevil spirit
• 莴wōused in 莴苣; used in 莴笋
• 菖chāngsee 菖蒲

Sounds the same

Read míng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 名name; noun (part of speech); place (e.g. among winners)
• 明bright; opposite: dark 暗; (of meaning) clear
• 铭to engrave; inscribed motto
• 鸣to cry (of birds, animals and insects); to make a sound…
• 茗Thea sinensis; young leaves of tea
• 溟to drizzle; sea
• 暝dark
• 螟boring insect; snout moth's larva…
• 瞑to close (the eyes)
• 眳space between the eyebrows and the eyelashes
• 洺name of a river
• 榠used in 榠楂