名

míng

name

noun (part of speech); place (e.g. among winners); famous; classifier for people

evening (夕) + mouth (口) = calling out your name in the dark

At dusk, you cannot see a person's face, so you call out their name to identify them. The mouth speaks the name that darkness makes necessary.

夕+口→名

口MouthSemantic

夕EveningSemantic

名儿

míng r

name

国名

guó míng

name of country

徒拥虚名

tú yōng xū míng

to possess an undeserved reputation (idiom)

通名

tōng míng

common noun

遐迩闻名

xiá ěr wén míng

see 聞名遐邇|闻名遐迩[wen2 ming2 xia2 er3]

违利赴名

wéi lì fù míng

to renounce profit and seek fame (idiom); to abandon greed for reputation

远近闻名

yuǎn jìn wén míng

to be known far and wide

释名

shì míng

"Shiming", late Han dictionary, containing 1502 entries, using puns on the pronunciation of headwords to explain their meaning

重名

chóng míng

to have the same name

重名

zhòng míng

renowned

重命名

chóng mìng míng

(computing) to rename

金榜题名

jīn bǎng tí míng

to win top marks in the imperial examinations