He was named after his grandfather.
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命名
mìng míng
HSK 3.0 · 7–9HSK 2.0 · 6
Yue Tan · University of Caen; © 2009 Yue Tan. MP3 preparation: Hugo Lopez / audio-cmn · CC BY-SA 3.0 US
mìng míng · ming6 ming4 (Jyutping)
- to give a name to
- to dub
- to christen
- to designate
- named after
- naming
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Character breakdown
Unihan 17.0.0 · Unicode License V3. Make Me a Hanzi · LGPL 3+. Interactive stroke order is available in the study tools.
Example sentences
Father named me after his aunt.
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