懵

懵	U+61F5, 懵 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-61F5

Translingual

Han character

懵 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+16, 19 strokes, cangjie input 心廿田山 (PTWU), four-corner 9406₂, composition ⿰忄瞢)

Derived characters

𡬆

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 408, character 12
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11451
Dae Jaweon: page 749, character 12
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2367, character 1
Unihan data for U+61F5

Chinese

trad.		懵
simp. ^#		懵
alternative forms		懜懞／蒙

Glyph origin

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

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

	Old Chinese
蘉	*maːŋ
瞢	mɯːŋ, mɯŋ, *mɯŋs
懜	mɯːŋs, mɯːŋ, *mɯŋ
懵	mɯːŋs, mɯːŋʔ
甍	*mrɯːŋ
薨	*hmɯːŋ
夢	mɯŋ, mɯŋs
鄸	*mɯŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *mɯːŋs, *mɯːŋʔ) : semantic 目 (“eye”) + phonetic 瞢 (OC *mɯːŋ, *mɯŋ, *mɯŋs).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): měng, méng, mēng

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄥˇ, ㄇㄥˊ, ㄇㄥ
Cantonese (Jyutping): mung² / mung⁵ / mung⁴
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): morng²
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): báng
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶maon; ⁶mon

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: měng
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄥˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: měng
  - Wade–Giles: mêng³
  - Yale: měng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: meeng
  - Palladius: мэн (mɛn)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɤŋ²¹⁴/
- (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: méng
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄥˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: méng
  - Wade–Giles: mêng²
  - Yale: méng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: meng
  - Palladius: мэн (mɛn)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɤŋ³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, variant in Mainland)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: mēng
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄥ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: meng
  - Wade–Giles: mêng¹
  - Yale: mēng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mheng
  - Palladius: мэн (mɛn)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɤŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: mung² / mung⁵ / mung⁴
  - Yale: múng / múhng / mùhng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: mung² / mung⁵ / mung⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: mung² / mung⁵ / mung⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mʊŋ³⁵/, /mʊŋ¹³/, /mʊŋ²¹/
Puxian Min
- (Putian, Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: morng²
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɒŋ¹³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: báng
  - Tâi-lô: báng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: barng
  - IPA (Xiamen): /baŋ⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /baŋ⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /baŋ⁵³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /baŋ⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /baŋ⁴¹/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁶maon; ⁶mon
  - MiniDict: maon^去; mon^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³maan; ³mon
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /mɑ̃²³/, /moŋ²³/

Middle Chinese: muwngX

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

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*mɯːŋs/, /*mɯːŋʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	懵	懵
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	8990	8994
Phonetic component	夢	夢
Rime group	蒸	東
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	𢅴	蠓
Old Chinese	/*mɯːŋs/	/*mɯːŋʔ/
Notes	由巾旁校正，集韻同懜

Definitions

懵

absent-minded; stupid; muddle-headed

Compounds

References

“懵”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “懵”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 155.

Vietnamese

Han character

懵: Hán Nôm readings: mộng, mẫng, mỗng

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References

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