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蒙

蒙: ignorance

ignorance; suffer; Mongolia
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Readings

On
モウ・ボウ
Kun
こうむる・おおう・くらい

As the verb 蒙る (こうむる) it means to receive something, often harm; in compounds it reads モウ, as in 啓蒙.

Key words

啓蒙けいもうenlightenment
蒙るこうむるto suffer; to receive
蒙古もうこMongolia
蒙昧もうまいignorance

Example sentences

In eighteenth-century Europe, Enlightenment thought spread widely.

Farmers in this region suffered heavy damage from the typhoon.

It is quite common for babies to have a Mongolian spot on their bottoms.

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