萌
(bound form) to sprout; to bud; (coll.) cute; adorable (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 萌え "moe", affection for an anime or manga character); variant of 氓[meng2]
11 strokes
Dict coverage rank #2,614 U+840C
How 萌 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
艹 (semantic, “plant”) + 明 (phonetic, míng)
How to remember it
bud · Heisig RSH #1580
flower + 明 bright
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 明
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 明 (míng) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 明 sound component | míng | bright, clear; to explain, to understand, to shed light |
| 盟 | méng | alliance, covenant; oath; to swear |
Words containing 萌
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 旧态复萌 | jiù tài fù méng | see 故態復萌|故态复萌[gu4 tai4 fu4 meng2] |
| 故态复萌 | gù tài fù méng | to revert to old ways |
| 防患未萌 | fáng huàn wèi méng | to prevent a disaster before the event (idiom); to nip sth in the bud |
| 萌生 | méng shēng | to burgeon; to produce; to conceive; to be in the initial stage |
| 萌动 | méng dòng | to sprout; (fig.) to emerge |
| 萌发 | méng fā | to sprout; to shoot; to bud |
| 萌新 | méng xīn | (neologism) (slang) newbie |
| 萌古 | Méng gǔ | (archaic) Mongol |
| 复萌 | fù méng | to germinate again |
| 装萌 | zhuāng méng | (slang) to act cute |
| 杜渐防萌 | dù jiān fáng méng | to nip in the bud |
| 卖萌 | mài méng | (slang) to act cute |
| 萌娃 | méng wá | cute little kid |
| 呆萌 | dāi méng | endearingly silly |
| 萌芽 | méng yá | (of a seed) to germinate; (of a plant) to sprout; to bud; sprout; bud; (also used figurati… |
| 萌渚岭 | Méng zhǔ lǐng | Mengzhu mountain range between south Hunan and Guangxi |
| 萌萌哒 | méng méng dā | (Internet slang) adorable; cute |