Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level: N1
2127 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Stroke count: 8
Meaning: chief, beginning
Kunyomi: かしら
Onyomi: モウ ボウ ミョウ
Composition: 子 皿
Radical: 子
Meaning: child, seed
孟子 （モウシ） Mencius (372-289 BCE), Mengzi, Mencius (one of the Four Books)
孟夏 （モウカ） beginning of summer, fourth month of the lunar calendar
孔孟 （コウモウ） Confucius and Mencius
論孟 （ロンモウ） the Confucian Analects and the Discourses of Mencius