明 (ming4 | ming2) : bright, clear

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明

ming4

ming2

[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.) [9] a Chinese family name

Stroke count: 8

Level: 1

Radical: 日 (#72)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

明

This word has been viewed 31005 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 12th Sep 2019 13:19

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明白 ming4 baak6 ming2 bai5 = to understand; clear, obvious, evident

小明 siu2 ming4 xiao3 ming2 = child

明天 ming4 tin1 ming2 tian1 = tomorrow 國

明星 ming4 sing1 ming2 xing1 = pop star; celebrity

明年 ming4 nin4 ming2 nian2 = next year

不明白 bat1 ming4 baak6 bu4 ming2 bai2 = not clear; unknown; fail to understand 國

唔明白 m4 ming4 baak6 = don't understand 粵

聰明 cung1 ming4 cong1 ming2 = clever

明明 ming4 ming4 ming2 ming2 = clearly

文明 man4 ming4 wen2 ming2 = civilized; civilization; (placename) Mun Ming
See all 216 compounds (CantoDict reports 233 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

Showing all 15 examples containing 明

我不明白國
I don't understand

我叫小明。
I am called Siu Ming.
[The alternative is 'I am Siu Ming' which is, in Cantonese, '我係小明。 ngo5 hai6 siu2 ming4']

小明同小芳係好朋友。粵
Siu Ming and Siu Fong are good friends.

你係咪真係完全明白啊？粵
Do you really understand everything?

有樣嘢我唔明白粵
There's something I don't understand.

我真係唔明白佢點解噉樣做呀。粵
I really don't understand why he acts/behaves like this.
[http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?14,131924,131924#msg-131924]

小明成日讚佢自己
Siu Ming is always praising herself.

乜你噉都唔明? 粵
Is it so hard to understand?
[[literal] why you such still not understand?]

我已經寫明係七點鐘開始嘅。
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
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
This probably is the punishment he gets for blaspheming against the deities.

請你幫我買幾份報紙，南華、星島、明報各一份。
Please buy some newspapers for me, South China (Morning Post), Sing Tao (Daily) and Ming Pao (Daily), one each.

如果阿明真係一個識飛嘅超人就好喇⋯⋯噉佢就唔會喺條街度踩咗啲米田共返嚟屋企，重要印到成條走廊嘅地板都係！抹死人咩⋯⋯ 粵
It'd be nice if Ah Ming were a superhero that knew how to fly … Then he wouldn't have brought home the poop that he stepped on in the street and printed it all over the floorboards in the hallway! Cleaning it up will be the death of me …

哪懼明天風高路斜
What could there be to fear from the adversity ahead?
[Literally: what could (we) fear from tomorrow's high winds and crooked roads]

綁匪懾於法律威嚴及時懸崖勒馬，算他們聰明。
The kidnappers, being fearful of the strict laws, were clever to pull back and stop before it became too late.

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