民
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Translingual[edit]
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Han character[edit]
民 (radical 83 氏+1, 5 strokes, cangjie input 口女心 (RVP), four-corner 77747)
Derived characters[edit]
References[edit]
- 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
Chinese[edit]
| simp. and trad. |
民 | |
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Glyph origin[edit]
| Historical forms of the character 民
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| Bronze inscriptions | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (民) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 眠 | *miːn |
| 民 | *min |
| 泯 | *min, *minʔ |
| 怋 | *min, *mɯːn |
| 岷 | *mrin |
| 珉 | *mrin |
| 罠 | *mrin |
| 笢 | *mrin, *minʔ |
| 鈱 | *mrin |
| 抿 | *mrɯn, *mrɯn, *mrɯnʔ |
| 刡 | *minʔ |
| 敃 | *mrinʔ |
| 愍 | *mrinʔ |
| 暋 | *mrinʔ |
| 蟁 | *mɯn |
Pictogram (象形) – an eye pierced by a dagger. This may be interpreted as 盲 (OC *mraːŋ, “blind”) or “slave < to enslave by blinding”.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): man4
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): mìn
- Min Dong (BUC): mìng
- Min Nan (POJ): bîn
- Wu (Wiktionary): min (T3)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄣˊ
- Wade-Giles: min2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: min
- IPA (key): /min³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
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- (Chengdu)
- Sichuanese Pinyin: min2
- Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: min
- IPA (key): /min²¹/
- (Chengdu)
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: man4
- Yale: màhn
- Cantonese Pinyin: man4
- Guangdong Romanization: men4
- IPA (key): /mɐn²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: mìn
- Hakka Romanization System: minˇ
- Hagfa Pinyim: min2
- IPA: /min¹¹/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: mìng
- IPA (key): /miŋ⁵³/
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: min (T3)
- IPA (key): /mɪɲ²³/
- (Shanghainese)
| Rime | |
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| Character | 民 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 明 (4) |
| Final (韻) | 眞 (43) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 彌鄰切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/miɪn/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/min/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/mjen/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/min/ |
| Li Rong |
/miĕn/ |
| Wang Li |
/mĭĕn/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/mi̯ĕn/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
mín |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
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| Character | 民 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
mín |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ mjin › |
| Old Chinese |
/*mi[ŋ]/ |
| English | people |
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; |
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| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
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| Character | 民 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 9130 |
| Phonetic component |
民 |
| Rime group |
眞 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
民 |
| Old Chinese |
/*min/ |
Definitions[edit]
民
- people; citizens
- folk; popular
- member of an ethnic group
- person of a particular occupation
- civilian
Compounds[edit]
Derived terms from 民
Japanese[edit]
Kanji[edit]
民
Readings[edit]
- Goon: みん (min)
- Kan’on: びん (bin)
- Kun: たみ (tami)
- Nanori: たみ (tami), ひと (hito), み (mi), みたみ (mitami), もと (moto)
Compounds[edit]
Korean[edit]
Hanja[edit]
民 • (min)
Compounds[edit]
- 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)
Usage notes[edit]
- ^ 民心, 天心. vox populi, vox dei. (The voice of the people is the voice of God.) The one may be a calque of the other, or vice versa.
Vietnamese[edit]
Han character[edit]
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Noun[edit]
民
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