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冥

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Pronunciation

Peng'im: mêng5
POJ: mêng
Variety: chaozhou

Meanings and usage

noun: the underworld; afterlife, dark; profound (literary)
冥

Several fairly divergent senses (dark/gloomy, ignorant, deep/profound, the underworld, night, a surname) share this single-character reading with no dialect-specific labeling to disambiguate which is primary in Teochew.

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