民

See also 艮, and 良

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Pictogram (象形) – possibly an eye being pierced with a dagger, a treatment of slaves, which is used to refer to people who are subservient.

Han character

民 (radical 83 氏+1, 5 strokes, cangjie input 口女心 (RVP), four-corner 7774₇)

1. people, subjects, citizens

Derived characters

• 眠 氓 罠 囻

References

• KangXi: page 598, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17028
• Dae Jaweon: page 988, character 32
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2131, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6C11

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Cantonese

Hanzi

民 (Yale man4)

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Japanese

Kanji

民 (grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: みん (min)
• Kun: たみ (tami)

Compounds

民意 (みんい, min'i) 民間 (みんかん, minkan) 民業 (みんぎょう, mingyō) 民権 (みんけん, minken)

民主 (みんしゅ, minshu) 民衆 (みんしゅう, minshū) 民主主義 (みんしゅしゅぎ, minshushugi) 民族 (みんぞく, minzoku)

民族主義 (みんぞくしゅぎ, minzokushugi) 国民 (こくみん, kokumin) 市民 (しみん, shimin) 市民活動 (しみんかつどう, shiminkatsudō)

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Korean

Hanja

民
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 민 (revised: min, McCune-Reischauer: min, Yale: min)

• Name (hangeul): 백성 (revised: baekseong, McCune-Reischauer: paeksŏng, Yale: paykseng)

1. (백성): the people, the populace, the nation

Compounds

民家 (민가, min-ga) 民間 (민간, mingan) 民權 (민권, mingwon) 民道 (민도, mindo) 民亂 (민란, minran) 民泊 (민박, minbag) 民法 (민법, minbeob) 民兵 (민병, minbyeong) 民事 (민사, minsa) 民生 (민생, minsaeng) 民選 (민선, minseon)

民俗 (민속, minsog) 民心 (민심, minsim) 民營 (민영, minyeong) 民謠 (민요, minyo) 民願 (민원, minwon) 民意 (민의, minui) 民政 (민정, minjeong) 民族 (민족, minjog) 民主 (민주, minju) 民衆 (민중, minjung) 民弊 (민폐, minpye)

公民 (공민, gongmin) 僑民 (교민, gyomin) 國民 (국민, gukmin) 農民 (농민, nongmin) 常民 (상민, sangmin) 庶民 (서민, seomin) 選民 (선민, seonmin) 市民 (시민, simin) 人民 (인민, inmin) 住民 (주민, jumin) 平民 (평민, pyeongmin)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

民 (pinyin mín (min2), méng (meng2), Wade-Giles meng², min²)

Compounds

• 民间

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Middle Chinese

Han character

民 (min)

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Vietnamese

Han character

民 (dân, rân)

Noun

民

1. Hán form of dân