明 (ming4) — a Chinese family name in Cantonese

mingˎ₄明

Mandarin Pinyin: ming2

Meaning of 明

nouna Chinese family name

nounintelligent; clever

nounnext (day or year)

nouneyesight; seeing faculty

nounbright; light; brilliant

nounday; daybreak; dawn

nounclear; understandable; [v] clarify; understand; obvious; evident

nounstate; show; assert

nounthe Ming dynasty (1368-1644 A.D.)

noun(adjective) 1. obvious; (noun)/eyesight (noun) the Ming dynasty

Example Sentences with 明

ngoˏ₅我zanˉ¹真haiˍ₆係mˎ₄唔mingˎ₄明baakˍ₆白keoiˏ₅佢dimˊ²點gaaiˊ²解gamˊ²噉joengˊ²樣zouˍ₆做aa˗₃呀。

I really don't understand why he acts/behaves like this.

我不明白

I don't understand

我已經寫明係七點鐘開始嘅。

I've already clearly put into writing that it starts at 7 o'clock.

現在流行的事物，過些時候都成為明日黃花。

What is fashionable now will be passe after some time.

或者呢個係佢褻瀆神明應得嘅報應

This probably is the punishment he gets for blaspheming against the deities.

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Words Containing 明

聲明書sing1 ming4 syu1

statement

來歷不明loi4 lik6 bat1 ming4

of unknown origin

聰明cung1 ming4

clever | [粵]: also 精叻, 叻

下落不明haa6 lok6 bat1 ming4

unaccounted; unknown whereabouts

不明bat1 ming4

not clear; unknown; fail to understand

不明亮火焰bat1 ming4 loeng6 fo2 jim6

non-luminous flame

兩個文明loeng5 go3 man4 ming4

material and ethical progress

光明gwong1 ming4

bright future, promising future

旗幟鮮明kei4 ci3 sin1 ming4

publicly and unequivocally

明顯ming4 hin2

clear, obvious, evident

聰明反被聰明誤cung1 ming4 faan2 bei4 cung1 ming4 ng6

clever people may fall victim to their own cleverness

不需證明的bat1 seoi1 zing3 ming4 dik1

axiomatic, axiomatical

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