名
/miŋ³⁵/
ÇINCE → TR
Tanım
•name · given name · reputation; fame
Etimoloji
Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 夕 (“crescent moon”) + 口 (“mouth”) — to say one's own name to identify oneself in the dark. An alternative theory has been proposed based on Shang era texts. 口 was originally used to write both 口 and 名. 夕 standing for what later came to be written 明, was added as a phonetic indicator to disambiguate the two meanings. From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-meŋ (“name”). Cognate…