茗

茗 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+6, 10 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 9 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 廿弓戈口 (TNIR), four-corner 4460₇, composition ⿱艹名)

• 𨪓

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1027, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30864
• Dae Jaweon: page 1486, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3208, character 1
• Unihan data for U+8317

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *meːŋʔ): semantic 艸 (“grass; plant”) + phonetic 名 (OC *meŋ).

A late word; earliest extant attestation is in Shuowen Jiezi (c. C.E. 100).

Likely from Austroasiatic. Compare Palaungic မျံမ် (miəm), Danau [script needed] (miːn²), Lamet mɪːŋ, Mlabri miʌŋ, Mal mhiaŋ, Nyah Kur mìəm, Thai เมี่ยง (mîiang), Northern Thai ᩉ᩠ᨾᩮᩥ᩠᩶ᨿᨦ, Lao ໝ້ຽງ (mīang).

茗

1. tea buds
2. late-picked tea
3. (in general) tea plant
4. tea (drink)
5. alternative form of 酩 (mǐng)
6. a surname

• “茗”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “茗”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 159.

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. tea, the tea plant

• Go-on: みょう (myō)^{←みやう (myau, historical)}
• Kan-on: めい (mei)
• Kun: ちゃ (cha, 茗)

/mjau/ → /mjɔː/ → /mjoː/

From Middle Chinese 茗 (MC mengX).

• (Tokyo) めー [méꜜè] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [me̞ː]

茗(めい) • (mei) 

1. tea, especially tea picked later in the season^[1]

• 茶(ちゃ) (cha) (especially tea picked earlier in the season)

• Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN

茗 • (myeong) (hangeul 명, revised myeong, McCune–Reischauer myŏng, Yale myeng)

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茗: Hán Việt readings: dính^[1], minh^[2]
茗: Nôm readings: dính^[1], rểnh^[1], tranh^[1]

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