萌

萌 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 廿日月 (TAB), four-corner 4462₇, composition ⿱艹明)

• 𢅆, 橗, 𫄁, 𬠫, 𧾆, 𬝡, 𢡗

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1041, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31265
• Dae Jaweon: page 1499, character 26
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3233, character 14
• Unihan data for U+840C

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *mreːŋ): semantic 艹 (“grass; plant”) + phonetic 明 (OC *mraŋ).

“to bud; to begin”

Compare Lepcha ᰖᰮ (mlam, “shoots that sprout from stump of tree”) (Schuessler, 2007).

“moe”

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 萌え (moe).

萌

1. to bud; to sprout; to germinate

   • 竹之始生，一寸之萌耳，而節葉具焉。 [Literary Chinese, trad.]
     竹之始生，一寸之萌耳，而节叶具焉。 [Literary Chinese, simp.]

     From: 1079, Su Shi,《文與可畫篔簹谷偃竹記》, translated by Cyril Drummond Le Gros Clark

     Zhú zhī shǐ shēng, yīcùn zhī méng ěr, ér jié yè jù yān. [Pinyin]

     When the bamboo begins to grow, the inch-long shoot already has joints and leaves.

2. to begin; to start
3. beginning; start; harbinger; omen; augury; portent
4. to happen; to occur; to take place
5. (ACG) moe: feelings of affection towards a fictional character
6. (Internet slang, by extension) cute; adorable

   賣萌／卖萌  ―  màiméng  ―  to act cutely

7. a surname, Meng

• (to bud):

• (to begin):

• (beginning):

• (harbinger):

• (people):

• (to happen): 發生／发生 (fāshēng)
• (ignorant): 無知／无知 (wúzhī)

萌

1. used in 蕨萌 (“a grass name”)

萌

1. (obsolete) alternative form of 氓 (“farmer; wanderer”)

• “萌”, 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), “萌”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 154.
• zi.tools

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

1. bud, sprout

• Go-on: みょう (myō)^{←みやう (myau, historical)}
• Kan-on: もう (mō)^{←まう (mau, historical)}
• Kan’yō-on: ほう (hō)^{←はう (fau, historical)}、ぼう (bō)^{←ばう (bau, historical)}
• Kun: きざし (kizashi, 萌し)、きざす (kizasu, 萌す)、めばえ (mebae, 萌え)、めぐむ (megumu, 萌む)、もえ (moe, 萌)、もえる (moeru, 萌える)、もやし (moyashi, 萌やし)、たみ (tami, 萌)
• Nanori: ほの (hono)、めぐみ (megumi)、めぐむ (megumu)、めみ (memi)、きざし (kizashi)

萌(きざし) • (Kizashi) 

1. a female given name
2. a surname

Nominalization of 萌え (moe), the 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 萌(も)える (moeru, “to bud, sprout”).

萌(もえ) • (Moe) 

1. a female given name

• “萌”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[2] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

萌 • (maeng) (hangeul 맹, revised maeng, McCune–Reischauer maeng, Yale mayng)

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萌: Hán Nôm readings: manh, mánh, mảnh, mành

1. đáng yêu, dễ thương