孟
first month of a season; eldest amongst brothers
8 strokes
Dict coverage rank #1,670 U+5B5F
How 孟 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A child 子 sitting on a throne 皿
How to remember it
Mencius · Heisig RSH #2485
子 child + dish
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 孟 as their sound component
These characters all use 孟 (mèng) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 孟 sound component | mèng | first in a series; great, eminent |
| 猛 | měng | violent, savage, cruel, bold |
| 锰 | měng | manganese |
| 勐 | měng | imperial decree; daoist magic |
| 艋 | měng | small boat |
| 蜢 | měng | grasshopper |
Words containing 孟
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 孟加拉人民共和国 | Mèng jiā lā Rén mín Gòng hé guó | People's Republic of Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan) |
| 孟加拉国 | Mèng jiā lā guó | Bangladesh |
| 孟加拉语 | Mèng jiā lā yǔ | Bengali (language) |
| 孟村回族自治县 | Mèng cūn Huí zú Zì zhì xiàn | Mengcun Hui Autonomous County, in Cangzhou City 滄州市|沧州市[Cang1 zhou1 Shi4], Hebei |
| 西孟加拉邦 | Xī Mèng jiā lā bāng | West Bengal |
| 孟州市 | Mèng zhōu Shì | Mengzhou, a county-level city in Jiaozuo City 焦作市[Jiao1 zuo4 Shi4], Henan |
| 孟加拉 | Mèng jiā lā | Bengal; Bangladesh |
| 孔孟之道 | Kǒng Mèng zhī dào | the teaching of Confucius and Mencius |
| 孟连县 | Mèng lián Xiàn | see 孟連傣族拉祜族佤族自治縣|孟连傣族拉祜族佤族自治县[Meng4 lian2 Dai3 zu2 La1 hu4 zu2 Wa3 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 xian4] |
| 孟加拉湾 | Mèng jiā lā wān | Bay of Bengal |
| 农德孟 | Nóng Dé Mèng | Nong Duc Manh (1940-), general secretary of the Vietnamese Communist Party 2001-2011 |
| 孟子 | Mèng zǐ | Mencius (c. 372-c. 289 BC), Confucian philosopher second only to Confucius; book of the sa… |
| 撒尔孟 | Sā ěr mèng | (Catholicism) Salmon (son of Nashon) |
| 孟德斯鸠 | Mèng dé sī jiū | Charles Montesquieu (1689-1755), French political philosopher |
| 孟州 | Mèng zhōu | see 孟州市[Meng4 zhou1 Shi4] |
| 孟津区 | Mèng jīn Qū | Mengjin, a district of Luoyang City 洛陽市|洛阳市[Luo4 yang2 Shi4], Henan |
| 王希孟 | Wáng Xī mèng | Wang Ximeng (c. 1096-c. 1119), Song artist, probably teenage prodigy who died young, paint… |
| 孟村县 | Mèng cūn Xiàn | see 孟村回族自治縣|孟村回族自治县[Meng4 cun1 Hui2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 xian4] |
| 孟连 | Mèng lián | see 孟連傣族拉祜族佤族自治縣|孟连傣族拉祜族佤族自治县[Meng4 lian2 Dai3 zu2 La1 hu4 zu2 Wa3 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 xian4] |
| 孟菲斯 | Mèng fēi sī | Memphis (Egypt or Tennessee) |