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孟
“big; old; elder (brother, uncle)”
孟 is a surname from Proto-Sino-Tibetan. It is used in Chinese.
Chinese and Korean and VietnameseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Meng.
Meaning & origin
What it means
孟 goes back to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *maŋ, meaning “big; old; elder (brother, uncle).”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *maŋ (“big; old; elder (brother, uncle)”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
孟’s family of names
孟 as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the English form MENG.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named 孟
- Lee Meng-yuanTaiwanese sport shooterborn 1994
- Lee MengMalaysian Chinese communist guerrilla (1926–2012)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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