萌
Tap the pinyin to hear it
(bound form) to sprout; to bud; (coll.) cute; adorable (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 萌え "moe", affection for an anime or manga character); variant of 氓[meng2]
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
bud · Heisig RSH #1580
flower + 明 bright
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 萌
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 旧态复萌 | see 故態復萌|故态复萌[gu4 tai4 fu4 meng2] | |
| 故态复萌 | to revert to old ways | |
| 防患未萌 | to prevent a disaster before the event (idiom); to nip sth in the bud | |
| 萌生 | to burgeon; to produce; to conceive; to be in the initial stage | |
| 萌动 | to sprout; (fig.) to emerge | |
| 萌发 | to sprout; to shoot; to bud | |
| 萌新 | (neologism) (slang) newbie | |
| 萌古 | (archaic) Mongol | |
| 复萌 | to germinate again | |
| 装萌 | (slang) to act cute | |
| 杜渐防萌 | to nip in the bud | |
| 卖萌 | (slang) to act cute | |
| 萌娃 | cute little kid | |
| 呆萌 | endearingly silly | |
| 萌芽 | (of a seed) to germinate; (of a plant) to sprout; to bud; sprout; bud; (also used figurati… | |
| 萌渚岭 | Mengzhu mountain range between south Hunan and Guangxi | |
| 萌萌哒 | (Internet slang) adorable; cute |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 明 — compare how they read.