蒙 (méng): to cover, Mongolia
蒙 (méng) is a Chinese character meaning “to cover, mongolia.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 艹 (semantic) and 冡 (phonetic). It ranks #1038 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 蒙 plant. Its radical form 艹 (grass) appears in many related characters such as 花 (huā, flower), 茶 (chá, tea), 菜 (cài, vegetable, dish).
Definitions
- to cover, Mongolia
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 荷尔蒙noun | hé ěr méng | (loanword) hormone |
| 蒙在鼓里phrase | méng zài gǔ lǐ | variant of 蒙在鼓裡|蒙在鼓里 |
| 雷蒙德 | léi méng dé | Raymond (name) |
| 蒙特利尔 | méng tè lì ěr | Montreal, city in Quebec, Canada |
| 埃德蒙 | āi dé méng | (name) Edmund |
| 蒙古proper-noun | měng gǔ | Mongolia |
| 蒙蔽verb | méng bì | to deceive |
| 蒙面verb | méng miàn | to cover one's face |
| 蒙大拿proper-noun | méng dà ná | Montana, US state |
| 承蒙verb | chéng méng | to be indebted (to sb) |
| 爱德蒙 | ài dé méng | (name) Edmund |
| 博蒙特 | bó méng tè | Beaumont |
| 蒙骗verb | mēng piàn | to hoodwink |
| 蒙混过关phrase | méng hùn guò guān | to get away with it |
| 佛蒙特proper-noun | fó méng tè | Vermont, US state |
蒙 appears in 100 compound words: 60 as the first character, 28 as the last, and 12 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 蒙 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (12)
to entrap, make blind, swindle and deceive; the various fraud techniques
to entrap, make blind, swindle and deceive; the various fraud techniques
Showing 10 of 12 idioms containing 蒙.
Example Sentences
这个问题让我感到困惑，需要再研究一下。
Zhè gè wèntí ràng wǒ gǎndào kùnhuò, xūyào zài yánjiū yíxià.
This problem confuses me; I need to study it further.
...月高點附近,美伊談判在即,關稅問題為前景蒙陰
. . . yuè gāo 點 fù jìn , měi yī 談 pàn zài jí , 關 稅 問 題 為 qián jǐng méng 陰
Near the monthly high, U.S.-Iran talks loom, with tariff issues casting a shadow over the outlook.
據報字節跳動在內蒙古新設三家科企 註冊資本共28億人幣
據 報 zì 節 tiào 動 zài 內 méng gǔ xīn 設 sān jiā kē qǐ 註 冊 資 běn gòng 億 rén 幣
ByteDance reportedly establishes three new tech companies in Inner Mongolia with a combined registered capital of 2.8 billion yuan.
鸿蒙智行问界 M6 登陆华为商城,新车定位“...
鸿 méng zhì háng wèn jiè dēng lù huá wéi shāng chéng , xīn chē dìng wèi . . .
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. . . guǎng dōng dēng dǐng quán guó zuì ài fā hóng bāo shěng fèn 鸿 méng zhì háng zūn jiè wěi zhuāng chē pù guāng yuè zhī àn miàn chéng . . .
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王楠出任内蒙古乒乓球队主教练
wáng 楠 chū rèn nèi méng gǔ pīng pāng qiú duì zhǔ jiào liàn
Wang Nan becomes head coach of Inner Mongolia table tennis team
戴蒙给我看了他的邮票册。
Dài mēng gěi wǒ kàn le tā de yóupiào cè.
Damon showed me his stamp album.
中国与蒙古隔着万里长城。
Zhōngguó yǔ Měnggǔ gé zhe Wànlǐ Chángchéng.
China and Mongolia are separated by the Great Wall of China.
乌兰巴托是蒙古的首都。
Wūlánbātuō shì Měnggǔ de shǒudū.
Ulaanbaatar is the capital of Mongolia.
不要被外貌蒙蔽了。
Bù yào bèi wàimào méngbì le.
Don't be fooled by appearances.
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