(mēng)

to make a wild guess/to hoodwink

How 蒙 is written

Strokes
13
Radical
— grass
Traditional
Simplified
(unchanged)

Components

蒙 has 3 readings

The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.

méng
drizzle; mist
mēng
to deceive; to cheat; to hoodwink; to make a wild guess
měng
Mongol ethnic group; abbr. for Mongolia 蒙古國|蒙古国[Meng3 gu3 guo2]; Taiwan pr. [Meng2]

Common words using 蒙

內蒙古 nèiměnggǔ
Inner Mongolia; abbr. for Inner Mongolia autonomous region 內蒙古自治區|内蒙古自治区
灰蒙蒙 huīmēngmēng
dusky; overcast (of weather)
矇牛 méngniú
China Mengniu Dairy Company Limited
荷爾蒙 héěrméng
hormone (loanword); see 激素[ji1 su4]
蒙蒙 méngméng
drizzle (of rain or snow)
內蒙 nèiměng
Inner Mongolia or Inner Mongolia autonomous region 內蒙古自治區|内蒙古自治区[Nei4 meng3 gu3 zi4 zhi4 qu1]
啟矇 qǐméng
variant of 啟蒙|启蒙[qi3 meng2]; to instruct the young
多特蒙德 duōtèméngdé
Dortmund city in the Ruhr 魯爾區|鲁尔区, Germany
承蒙 chéngméng
to be indebted (to sb)
矇混 ménghùn
to deceive; to hoodwink; Taiwan pr. [meng1 hun4]
矇矇亮 mēngmēngliàng
dawn; the first glimmer of light
矇騙 mēngpiàn
to hoodwink; to deceive; to dupe sb

蒙 in a sentence

這題答案是我蒙對的。

Zhè tí dá'àn shì wǒ mēng duì de.

“I guessed the answer to this question correctly (by luck).”

How common is 蒙?

蒙 is the 1,037th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 89.7% of all running text.

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