(Leica D-Lux 5)
The Chinese character is pronounced as "mong" (or "wang" tone 4 in Mandarin), meaning "look". It can be used in an exclamation or imperative like, "Hey, take a look!" ("Wai, mong ha!") or as sort of a transitive verb in sentences like, "Look that way" and "Look at me".
CSL Learners should note that every Chinese character can be both a word and the smallest morphemic element to go with other characters to form vocabularies, to which the nearest comparison in English is the phrasal verb where a word can take on a preprosition to give a different meaning. "Mong" is of no exception. The list of combinations of vocabularies can be found in a Chinese Ci Dian ("Ci Dian" is dictionary for words, "Zi Dian" is dictionary for characters).
The best Ci Dian for CSL learners is not found among those published by Chinese native speakers but by an editor named John Defrancis. John is a Yale Uni graduates and earned his Master and Doctorate degrees in Chinese and Japanese from Coloumbia Uni. He has been teaching Chinese in Hawaii Uni. I attended one of his lectures in which he introduced his then newly published Chinese-English dictionary as shown below. The reason why it is best suited for CSL learners is that the entries are set out in alphabetical order basing on the Pinyin system which is very logical for English speakers.
The best Ci Dian for CSL learners is not found among those published by Chinese native speakers but by an editor named John Defrancis. John is a Yale Uni graduates and earned his Master and Doctorate degrees in Chinese and Japanese from Coloumbia Uni. He has been teaching Chinese in Hawaii Uni. I attended one of his lectures in which he introduced his then newly published Chinese-English dictionary as shown below. The reason why it is best suited for CSL learners is that the entries are set out in alphabetical order basing on the Pinyin system which is very logical for English speakers.
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