孟

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first month of a season; eldest amongst brothers

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HSK 3.0: Level 7–9
Strokes: 8
Radical: 子 +5
Structure: Top–bottom 上下
Traditional: 孟
Common rank: #1,670
Unicode: U+5B5F

Formation & memory

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How 孟 is formed

Ideographic compound (会意字)

A child 子 sitting on a throne 皿

Components 子皿

How to remember it

Mencius · Heisig RSH #2485

子 child + dish

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Words with 孟

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

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)

Sound family

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

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
孟 sound part	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