明年

Chinese

 
clear; bright; to understand
clear; bright; to understand; next; the Ming dynasty
year
simp. and trad.
(明年)

Pronunciation


Note:
  • miàng-ngièn/màng-ngièn - vernacular;
  • mìn-ngièn - literary.

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (4) (8)
Final () (111) (85)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III IV
Fanqie
Baxter mjaeng nen
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/mˠiæŋ/ /nen/
Pan
Wuyun
/mᵚiaŋ/ /nen/
Shao
Rongfen
/miaŋ/ /nɛn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/miajŋ/ /nɛn/
Li
Rong
/miɐŋ/ /nen/
Wang
Li
/mĭɐŋ/ /nien/
Bernard
Karlgren
/mi̯ɐŋ/ /nien/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
míng nián
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
ming4 nin4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
míng nián
Middle
Chinese
‹ mjæng › ‹ nen ›
Old
Chinese
/*mraŋ/ /*C.nˁi[ŋ]/
English bright harvest; year

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 9188 9482
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*mraŋ/ /*niːŋ/
Notes

Noun

明年

  1. next year
  2. (literary) the second year

Synonyms

  • (the second year): 翌年 (yìnián)

Further reading

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