铭

铭

See also: 銘

铭 U+94ED, 铭 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-94ED ← 铬 [U+94EC] CJK Unified Ideographs 铮 → [U+94EE]

Translingual

Etymology

Simplified from 銘 (釒 → 钅).

In current form Phono-semantic compound (形聲) : semantic 钅 (“metal”) + phonetic 名 (OC *meŋ) – engrave in metal. Note that 名 means “name”, hence connotations of “engrave a name in metal”.

Han character

铭 (radical 167, 钅+6, 11 strokes, cangjie input 金弓戈口 (CNIR) or 人心弓戈口 (OPNIR) or X金弓戈口 (XCNIR), composition ⿰钅名)

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 1328, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4201, character 1
• Unihan data for U+94ED

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Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 铭 – see 銘 (“inscribe, engrave; inscription; etc.”). (This character, 铭, is the simplified form of 銘.)

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.