名

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name; noun (part of speech); place (e.g. among winners); famous; classifier for people

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Formation & memory

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Ideographic compound (会意字)

A name called out 口 to hail someone at night 夕

Components 夕口

name · Heisig RSH #119

夕 evening + 口 mouth

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

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Word	Pinyin	Meaning
有名	yǒu míng	famous; well-known
名字	míng zi	name (of a person or thing)
大名县	Dà míng Xiàn	Daming, a county in Handan City 邯鄲市\|邯郸市[Han2 dan1 Shi4], Hebei
名山区	Míng shān Qū	Mingshan, a district of Ya'an City 雅安市[Ya3 an1 Shi4], Sichuan
一文不名	yī wén bù míng	to be penniless
不名一文	bù míng yī wén	without a penny to one's name; penniless; stony-broke
人名	rén míng	personal name
名人	míng rén	personage; celebrity
大名	Dà míng	see 大名縣\|大名县[Da4 ming2 Xian4]
大名	dà míng	famous name; your distinguished name; one's formal personal name; (Japanese history) daimy…
县名	xiàn míng	name of county
名山	Míng shān	see 名山區\|名山区[Ming2 shan1 Qu1]
名山	míng shān	famous mountain
不名数	bù míng shù	abstract number
名花有主	míng huā yǒu zhǔ	(idiom) (of a woman) already taken
国名	guó míng	name of country
名头	míng tou	reputation
头名	tóu míng	first place; leader (of a race)
名学	míng xué	(archaic) logic
学名	xué míng	scientific name; Latin name (of plant or animal); (according to an old system of nomenclat…

These characters use 名 as their sound component — compare how they read.