"明明" meaning in Chinese

See 明明 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adverb

IPA: /miŋ³⁵ miŋ³⁵/ [Mandarin, Sinological-IPA, standard], /mɪŋ²¹ mɪŋ²¹/ [Cantonese, Sinological-IPA], /min¹¹ min¹¹/ [Hakka, Meinong, Miaoli, Sinological-IPA, Sixian], /biɪŋ²⁴⁻²² biɪŋ²⁴/ [Hokkien, Xiamen], /biɪŋ²⁴⁻²² biɪŋ²⁴/ [Hokkien, Quanzhou], /biɪŋ¹³⁻²² biɪŋ¹³/ [Hokkien, Zhangzhou], /biɪŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ biɪŋ²⁴/ [Hokkien, Taipei], /biɪŋ²³⁻³³ biɪŋ²³/ [Hokkien, Kaohsiung], /meŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ meŋ⁵⁵/ [Sinological-IPA, Teochew], /miŋ³⁵ miŋ³⁵/, /mɪŋ²¹ mɪŋ²¹/, /min¹¹ min¹¹/, /biɪŋ²⁴⁻²² biɪŋ²⁴/, /biɪŋ²⁴⁻²² biɪŋ²⁴/, /biɪŋ¹³⁻²² biɪŋ¹³/, /biɪŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ biɪŋ²⁴/, /biɪŋ²³⁻³³ biɪŋ²³/, /meŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ meŋ⁵⁵/ Chinese transliterations: míngmíng [Mandarin, Pinyin], ㄇㄧㄥˊ ㄇㄧㄥˊ [Mandarin, bopomofo], ming⁴ ming⁴ [Cantonese, Jyutping], mìn-mìn [Hakka, Phak-fa-su, Sixian], bêng-bêng [Hokkien, POJ], mêng⁵ mêng⁵ [Peng'im, Teochew], míngmíng [Hanyu-Pinyin, Mandarin, standard], ㄇㄧㄥˊ ㄇㄧㄥˊ [Mandarin, bopomofo, standard], míngmíng [Mandarin, Tongyong-Pinyin, standard], ming²-ming² [Mandarin, Wade-Giles, standard], míng-míng [Mandarin, Yale, standard], mingming [Gwoyeu-Romatsyh, Mandarin, standard], минмин [Mandarin, Palladius, standard], minmin [Mandarin, Palladius, standard], mìhng mìhng [Cantonese, Yale], ming⁴ ming⁴ [Cantonese, Pinyin], ming⁴ ming⁴ [Cantonese, Guangdong-Romanization], mìn-mìn [Hakka, Meinong, Miaoli, Phak-fa-su, Sixian], minˇ minˇ [Hakka, Hakka-Romanization-System, Meinong, Miaoli, Sixian], min² min² [Hagfa-Pinyim, Hakka, Meinong, Miaoli, Sixian], bîng-bîng [Hokkien, Tai-lo], bengbeeng [Hokkien, Phofsit-Daibuun], mêng mêng [POJ, Teochew]
Head templates: {{head|zh|adverb}} 明明
  1. obviously; plainly; clearly; also often used in an "even though"-type sentence Synonyms: 分明 (fēnmíng), 現現 [Hokkien], 现现 [Hokkien], 顯然 (xiǎnrán), 显然 (xiǎnrán), 顯而易見 (xiǎn'éryìjiàn), 显而易见 (xiǎn'éryìjiàn)
    Sense id: en-明明-zh-adv-b2s6Wilj Categories (other): Chinese entries with incorrect language header, Intermediate Mandarin

Download JSON data for 明明 meaning in Chinese (4.2kB)

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "adverb"
      },
      "expansion": "明明",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Intermediate Mandarin",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "He's clearly so ordinary, and yet so confident.",
          "ref": "他明明那麼普通卻又那麼自信。 [MSC, trad.]",
          "text": "他明明那么普通却又那么自信。 [MSC, simp.]\nTā míngmíng nàme pǔtōng què yòu nàme zìxìn. [Pinyin]",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "[even though] I'm sure I put it here",
          "ref": "明明是放在這裏的 [MSC, trad.]",
          "text": "明明是放在这里的 [MSC, simp.]\nmíngmíng shì fàng zài zhèlǐ de [Pinyin]",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "obviously; plainly; clearly; also often used in an \"even though\"-type sentence"
      ],
      "id": "en-明明-zh-adv-b2s6Wilj",
      "links": [
        [
          "obviously",
          "obviously"
        ],
        [
          "plainly",
          "plainly"
        ],
        [
          "clearly",
          "clearly"
        ],
        [
          "even though",
          "even though#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "roman": "fēnmíng",
          "word": "分明"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Hokkien"
          ],
          "word": "現現"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Hokkien"
          ],
          "word": "现现"
        },
        {
          "roman": "xiǎnrán",
          "word": "顯然"
        },
        {
          "roman": "xiǎnrán",
          "word": "显然"
        },
        {
          "roman": "xiǎn'éryìjiàn",
          "word": "顯而易見"
        },
        {
          "roman": "xiǎn'éryìjiàn",
          "word": "显而易见"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "míngmíng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄇㄧㄥˊ ㄇㄧㄥˊ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ming⁴ ming⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Phak-fa-su",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mìn-mìn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bêng-bêng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Peng'im",
        "Teochew"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mêng⁵ mêng⁵"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "míngmíng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄇㄧㄥˊ ㄇㄧㄥˊ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "míngmíng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ming²-ming²"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "míng-míng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mingming"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "минмин"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "minmin"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/miŋ³⁵ miŋ³⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "standard"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mìhng mìhng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ming⁴ ming⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ming⁴ ming⁴"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mɪŋ²¹ mɪŋ²¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Phak-fa-su",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mìn-mìn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Hakka-Romanization-System",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "minˇ minˇ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hagfa-Pinyim",
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "min² min²"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/min¹¹ min¹¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "Sixian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bîng-bîng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bengbeeng"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/biɪŋ²⁴⁻²² biɪŋ²⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/biɪŋ²⁴⁻²² biɪŋ²⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Quanzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/biɪŋ¹³⁻²² biɪŋ¹³/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Zhangzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/biɪŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ biɪŋ²⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Taipei"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/biɪŋ²³⁻³³ biɪŋ²³/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Kaohsiung"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "POJ",
        "Teochew"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mêng mêng"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/meŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ meŋ⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "Teochew"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/miŋ³⁵ miŋ³⁵/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mɪŋ²¹ mɪŋ²¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/min¹¹ min¹¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/biɪŋ²⁴⁻²² biɪŋ²⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/biɪŋ²⁴⁻²² biɪŋ²⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/biɪŋ¹³⁻²² biɪŋ¹³/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/biɪŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ biɪŋ²⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/biɪŋ²³⁻³³ biɪŋ²³/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/meŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ meŋ⁵⁵/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "明明"
}
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "adverb"
      },
      "expansion": "明明",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Cantonese adverbs",
        "Cantonese lemmas",
        "Cantonese terms with audio links",
        "Chinese adverbs",
        "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
        "Chinese lemmas",
        "Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Hakka adverbs",
        "Hakka lemmas",
        "Hokkien adverbs",
        "Hokkien lemmas",
        "Intermediate Mandarin",
        "Mandarin adverbs",
        "Mandarin lemmas",
        "Mandarin terms with audio links",
        "Mandarin terms with homophones",
        "Mandarin terms with usage examples",
        "Teochew adverbs",
        "Teochew lemmas"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "He's clearly so ordinary, and yet so confident.",
          "ref": "他明明那麼普通卻又那麼自信。 [MSC, trad.]",
          "text": "他明明那么普通却又那么自信。 [MSC, simp.]\nTā míngmíng nàme pǔtōng què yòu nàme zìxìn. [Pinyin]",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "[even though] I'm sure I put it here",
          "ref": "明明是放在這裏的 [MSC, trad.]",
          "text": "明明是放在这里的 [MSC, simp.]\nmíngmíng shì fàng zài zhèlǐ de [Pinyin]",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "obviously; plainly; clearly; also often used in an \"even though\"-type sentence"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "obviously",
          "obviously"
        ],
        [
          "plainly",
          "plainly"
        ],
        [
          "clearly",
          "clearly"
        ],
        [
          "even though",
          "even though#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "míngmíng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄇㄧㄥˊ ㄇㄧㄥˊ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ming⁴ ming⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Phak-fa-su",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mìn-mìn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "POJ"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bêng-bêng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Peng'im",
        "Teochew"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mêng⁵ mêng⁵"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hanyu-Pinyin",
        "Mandarin",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "míngmíng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "bopomofo",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ㄇㄧㄥˊ ㄇㄧㄥˊ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Tongyong-Pinyin",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "míngmíng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Wade-Giles",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ming²-ming²"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Yale",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "míng-míng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Gwoyeu-Romatsyh",
        "Mandarin",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mingming"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "минмин"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Palladius",
        "standard"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "minmin"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/miŋ³⁵ miŋ³⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Mandarin",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "standard"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mìhng mìhng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ming⁴ ming⁴"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "ming⁴ ming⁴"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mɪŋ²¹ mɪŋ²¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Phak-fa-su",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mìn-mìn"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Hakka-Romanization-System",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "minˇ minˇ"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hagfa-Pinyim",
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sixian"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "min² min²"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/min¹¹ min¹¹/",
      "tags": [
        "Hakka",
        "Meinong",
        "Miaoli",
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "Sixian"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Tai-lo"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bîng-bîng"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Phofsit-Daibuun"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "bengbeeng"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/biɪŋ²⁴⁻²² biɪŋ²⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Xiamen"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/biɪŋ²⁴⁻²² biɪŋ²⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Quanzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/biɪŋ¹³⁻²² biɪŋ¹³/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Zhangzhou"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/biɪŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ biɪŋ²⁴/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Taipei"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/biɪŋ²³⁻³³ biɪŋ²³/",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien",
        "Kaohsiung"
      ]
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "POJ",
        "Teochew"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "mêng mêng"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/meŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ meŋ⁵⁵/",
      "tags": [
        "Sinological-IPA",
        "Teochew"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/miŋ³⁵ miŋ³⁵/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/mɪŋ²¹ mɪŋ²¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/min¹¹ min¹¹/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/biɪŋ²⁴⁻²² biɪŋ²⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/biɪŋ²⁴⁻²² biɪŋ²⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/biɪŋ¹³⁻²² biɪŋ¹³/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/biɪŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ biɪŋ²⁴/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/biɪŋ²³⁻³³ biɪŋ²³/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/meŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ meŋ⁵⁵/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "roman": "fēnmíng",
      "word": "分明"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "現現"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "现现"
    },
    {
      "roman": "xiǎnrán",
      "word": "顯然"
    },
    {
      "roman": "xiǎnrán",
      "word": "显然"
    },
    {
      "roman": "xiǎn'éryìjiàn",
      "word": "顯而易見"
    },
    {
      "roman": "xiǎn'éryìjiàn",
      "word": "显而易见"
    }
  ],
  "word": "明明"
}
{
  "called_from": "parser/304",
  "msg": "HTML tag <sup> not properly closed",
  "path": [
    "明明"
  ],
  "section": "Chinese",
  "subsection": "",
  "title": "明明",
  "trace": "started on line 25, detected on line 25"
}

{
  "called_from": "parser/1336",
  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </sup>",
  "path": [
    "明明"
  ],
  "section": "Chinese",
  "subsection": "",
  "title": "明明",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "pronunciations/296/20230324",
  "msg": "Zh-pron header not found in zh_pron_tags or tags: 'Southern Min'",
  "path": [
    "明明"
  ],
  "section": "Chinese",
  "subsection": "",
  "title": "明明",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "pronunciations/296/20230324",
  "msg": "Zh-pron header not found in zh_pron_tags or tags: '(Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺'",
  "path": [
    "明明"
  ],
  "section": "Chinese",
  "subsection": "",
  "title": "明明",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Chinese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.