蒙 (mēng)
to make a wild guess/to hoodwink
How 蒙 is written
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 艹 — grass
- Traditional
- 蒙
- Simplified
- 蒙 (unchanged)
Components
- 艹 grass
- 冖 cover
- 二 two
- 勹 wrap
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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