Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Animals & Wildlife

鳴: chirp, cry

Also: bark, sound, ring, echo, honk

JLPT N314 strokesGrade 2Your ink: 白 Not met

口 and 鳥 carry the meaning

14 strokes

Four readings, and the words that use each

メイmei · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 悲鳴ひめいshriek, scream
  • 鳴動するめいどうするrumble
  • 共鳴するきょうめいするresonate, be in sympathy

なくnaku · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 鳴くなくsing, cry, make a sound
  • 鳴き声なきごえcry , roar, tearful voice
  • 耳鳴りみみなりbuzzing in the ears, tinnitus

なるnaru · kun'yomi

  • 鳴るなるring, sound, resound [v.i.]

ならすnarasu · kun'yomi

  • 鳴らすならすring, sound [v.t.]

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Ideogrammic compound (會意)口 mouth + 鳥 bird

To cry (of birds).

Source: Wiktionary, 鳴 (rev. 87588760), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Mouth (口) + bird = the image of a bird opening its mouth wide to greet the morning sun with a song or a cry.”
From the 鳥 bird story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
口

Also built on mouth (口)

All 108
鳥

Also built on bird (鳥)

All 8

Also read メイ

8 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
鳴 chirp · 口
vs蔦 vine · 艹
鳴 has 口 where 蔦 has 艹.
In ChineseSimplified 鸣 · traditional, as in Japanese · míng

Japan keeps the traditional form 鳴; mainland China simplifies it to 鸣.

Simplified
鸣 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
鳴 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin míng most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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