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人民

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Chinese

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man; person; people the people; nationality; citizen
simp. and trad.
(人民)
anagram 民人

Etymology

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Attestable in pre-Qin texts as a term meaning "common people". Modern sense first attested in An English and Chinese dictionary published in 1884 by W. Lobscheid.

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (38) (4)
Final () (43) (43)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter nyin mjin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ȵiɪn/ /miɪn/
Pan
Wuyun
/ȵin/ /min/
Shao
Rongfen
/ȵʑjen/ /mjen/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ȵin/ /min/
Li
Rong
/ȵiĕn/ /miĕn/
Wang
Li
/ȵʑĭĕn/ /mĭĕn/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ȵʑi̯ĕn/ /mi̯ĕn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
rén mín
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
jan4 man4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
rén mín
Middle
Chinese
‹ nyin › ‹ mjin ›
Old
Chinese
/*ni[ŋ]/ /*mi[ŋ]/
English (other) person people

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 10800 9130
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*njin/ /*min/

Noun

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人民

  1. people (collectively, as members of society)
    熱愛人民热爱人民  ―  rè'ài rénmín  ―  to love the people
    人民民主專政人民民主专政  ―  rénmín mínzhǔ zhuānzhèng  ―  people's democratic dictatorship
    過程人民民主过程人民民主  ―  quán guòchéng rénmín mínzhǔ  ―  whole-process people's democracy
    人民生活步步高  ―  rénmín shēnghuó bùbùgāo  ―  the lives of the people improve step by step
    科技人民利益服務 [MSC, trad.]
    科技人民利益服务 [MSC, simp.]
    Kējì yīng wèi rénmín lìyì fúwù. [Pinyin]
    Science and technology should work for the good of the people.
    中國人民政治協商會議 [MSC, trad.]
    中国人民政治协商会议 [MSC, simp.]
    Zhōngguó rénmín zhèngzhì xiéshāng huìyì [Pinyin]
    Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
  2. humanity; humans (as a collective); humankind; the human race

Usage notes

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人民 (rénmín) can only refer to people collectively, as a unit. To refer to people as individually countable persons, use (rén). To refer to people in an otherwise general sense, use 人們人们 (rénmen).

Synonyms

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  • (people):

Derived terms

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Descendants

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Sino-Xenic (人民):

Others:

See also

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Japanese

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Kanji in this term
じん
Grade: 1
みん
Grade: 4
on'yomi

Etymology

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From Middle Chinese compound 人民 (MC nyin mjin). Compare modern Mandarin 人民 (rénmín), Wu 人民 (6zen-min6), Min Nan 人民 (jîn-bîn).

Formerly pronounced with a consistent 呉音 (goon) reading of ninmin, later changing to a mixed 漢音 (kan'on) / 呉音 (goon) reading of jinmin.[1][2]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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(じん)(みん) (jinmin

  1. the people, the general public, the citizens

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

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Hanja in this term

Noun

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人民 (inmin) (hangeul 인민)

  1. hanja form? of 인민 (the people (of a country), citizens)

Vietnamese

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chữ Hán Nôm in this term

Noun

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人民

  1. chữ Hán form of nhân dân (people).