愚民

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Chinese

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stupid the people; nationality; citizen
trad. (愚民)
simp. #(愚民)

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (31) (4)
Final () (24) (43)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter ngju mjin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ŋɨo/ /miɪn/
Pan
Wuyun
/ŋio/ /min/
Shao
Rongfen
/ŋio/ /mjen/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ŋuə̆/ /min/
Li
Rong
/ŋio/ /miĕn/
Wang
Li
/ŋĭu/ /mĭĕn/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ŋi̯u/ /mi̯ĕn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
mín
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
jyu4 man4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
mín
Middle
Chinese
‹ mjin ›
Old
Chinese
/*mi[ŋ]/
English 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. 15919 9130
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ŋo/ /*min/

Noun

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愚民

  1. ignorant people; the ignorant masses

Verb

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愚民

  1. to keep the people ignorant; to stultify the masses; to engage in obscurantism

Derived terms

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Descendants

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Sino-Xenic (愚民):
  • Japanese: ()(みん) (gumin)
  • Korean: 우민(愚民) (umin)

References

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Japanese

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Kanji in this term

Grade: S
みん
Grade: 4
on'yomi

Pronunciation

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Noun

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()(みん) (gumin

  1. ignorant commoners

References

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  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

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Hanja in this term

Noun

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愚民 (umin) (hangeul 우민)

  1. hanja form? of 우민 (ignorant people; the ignorant masses)