ignorance, darkness, get, receive, be subjected to, sustain, Mongolia
蒙 centers on being covered or enveloped, leading to darkness and ignorance (a mental covering), as well as receiving or sustaining something that comes over you. The Mongolia sense is a phonetic loan used in country names.
蒙 originally depicted a plant covering something, with 艹 (grass) over 冡 (a cover over a pig), conveying the idea of covering or enveloping. The meanings of ignorance and darkness derive from being covered or obscured. The use for Mongolia is a phonetic loan.
Grass 艹 covers a pig 豕 under a roof 冖, hiding it completely. This covering leads to darkness and ignorance, and also to receiving something that comes over you.
For モウ, imagine a cow (モウ) covered in grass, mooing in the dark ignorance of its surroundings: moo -> モウ.
enlightenment; illumination
ignorance
Manchuria and Inner Mongolia
ignorant; unenlightened; uncivilized; uncivilised
Mongolian spot; Mongolian blue spot; congenital dermal melanocytosis
Inner Mongolia
Inner Mongolia (China)
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (China)
illuminism; enlightenment
enlightened despot
the philosophy of the European Enlightenment
enlightenment movement; the Enlightenment
book for novices; general introduction to a subject
information campaign; awareness program
enlightening
enlightened absolutist
enlightenment movement; the Enlightenment
Outer Mongolia
meng (hexagram 4 of the I Ching: youthful folly)
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