冥
dark; deep; stupid; the underworld
10 strokes
Dict coverage rank #2,071 U+51A5
How 冥 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
The sun 日, covered 冖, with 六 providing the pronunciation
Characters built with 冥 as their sound component
These characters all use 冥 (míng) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 冥 sound component | míng | dark, gloomy, night; deep |
| 蓂 | mì | a lucky place |
| 螟 | míng | caterpillar, larva |
| 暝 | míng | dark, obscure |
Words containing 冥
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 冥王星 | Míng wáng xīng | Pluto (dwarf planet) |
| 冥思苦索 | míng sī kǔ suǒ | see 苦思冥想[ku3 si1 ming2 xiang3] |
| 冥思苦想 | míng sī kǔ xiǎng | see 苦思冥想[ku3 si1 ming2 xiang3] |
| 苦思冥想 | kǔ sī míng xiǎng | (idiom) to think deeply; to rack one's brains |
| 冥冥之中 | míng míng zhī zhōng | in the unseen world of spirits; mysteriously and inexorably |
| 冥道 | míng dào | path to the underworld (in Daoist or folk beliefs, referring to the journey of spirits aft… |
| 冥合 | míng hé | to agree implicitly; of one mind; views coincide without a word exchanged |
| 冥王 | míng wáng | the king of hell |
| 冥界 | míng jiè | ghost world |
| 冥福 | míng fú | afterlife happiness |
| 冥顽不灵 | míng wán bù líng | (idiom) pigheaded |
| 冥钱 | míng qián | joss paper made to resemble paper money |
| 冥纸 | míng zhǐ | joss paper made to resemble paper money |
| 冥想 | míng xiǎng | to meditate; meditation |
| 风雨晦冥 | fēng yǔ huì míng | conditions of extreme adversity (idiom) |
| 冥婚 | míng hūn | posthumous or ghost marriage (in which at least one of the bride and groom is dead) |
| 冥府 | míng fǔ | underworld; hell |
| 冥寿 | míng shòu | birthday of a deceased person |
| 冥币 | míng bì | false paper money burned as an offering to the dead |
| 幽冥 | yōu míng | dark; hell; netherworld; hades |