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ming4
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[1] bright; light; brilliant [2] clear; understandable; [v] clarify; understand; obvious; evident [3] intelligent; clever [4] eyesight; seeing faculty [5] day; daybreak; dawn [6] [v] state; show; assert [7] next (day or year) [8] the Ming dynasty (1368-1644 A.D.) [10] a Chinese family name Stroke count: 8
Level: 1
Radical: 日 (#72)
This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. |
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| This character was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 and last edited on 13th Nov 2008 | |
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明白
ming4 baak6 = to understand
小明
siu2 ming4 = child
明天
ming4 tin1 = tomorrow 國
明星
ming4 sing1 = pop star; celebrity
明年
ming4 nin4 = next year
不明白
bat1 ming4 baak6 = not clear; unknown; fail to understand 國
唔明白
m4 ming4 baak6 = don't understand 粵
聰明
cung1 ming4 = clever
明明
ming4 ming4 = clearly
文明
man4 ming4 = civilized; civilization; (placename) Mun MingSee all 196 compounds |
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Showing all 5 examples containing 明
我不明白 國
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I don't understand
我真係唔明白佢點解噉樣做嘅。 粵
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I really don't understand why he does it this way.
我已經寫明係七點鐘開始嘅。
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I've already clearly put into writing that it starts at 7 o'clock.
現在流行的事物，過些時候都成為明日黃花。 國
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What is fashionable now will be passe after some time.
或者呢個係佢褻瀆神明應得嘅報應 粵
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This probably is the punishment he gets for blaspheming against the deities. Legend 國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese. 粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. No icon: This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. |
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Forum Code to link to this word:
[big][url=http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/characters/71/]明[/url][/big]
HTML Code to link to this word:
<a href="http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/characters/71/" class="chinesemed" target="_blank">明</a>
Decimal representation of this word: 明
Unicode code for this character: U+660E (off-site link)
[big][url=http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/characters/71/]明[/url][/big]
HTML Code to link to this word:
<a href="http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/characters/71/" class="chinesemed" target="_blank">明</a>
Decimal representation of this word: 明
Unicode code for this character: U+660E (off-site link)
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