民主
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Contents
Japanese[edit]
| Kanji in this term | |
| 民 | 主 |
| みん Grade: 4 |
しゅ Grade: 3 |
| on'yomi | |
Etymology[edit]
From Sinitic 民主. Repurposed in China in the mid-1860s, giving the word a new meaning, during the translation of the book Elements of International Law into Chinese.[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
民主 (hiragana みんしゅ, romaji minshu)
Synonyms[edit]
- 民主主義 (minshu shugi) (more commonly used)
Compounds[edit]
- 民主党 (minshutō, “democratic party”)
- 民主的 (minshuteki, “democratic”)
References[edit]
- ^ 陳 (Bao), 生保（Chen Sheng) (1996-12-17), "中国語の中の日本語 (Chinese Borrowings from the Japanese Language), paper presented at the Japanese Language Research Forum held by the International Research Center for Japanese Studies" (in Japanese), International Research Center for Japanese Studies. URL accessed on 2012-06-15.
Mandarin[edit]
| simpl. and trad. | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 民主 | |||
Pronunciation[edit]
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Adjective[edit]
民主 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin )
Noun[edit]
民主 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin )
See also[edit]
Min Nan[edit]
| simpl. and trad. | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 民主 | |||
Hanzi[edit]
民主 (traditional, POJ bîn-chú)
Categories:
- Japanese terms spelled with 民 read as みん
- Japanese terms spelled with 主 read as しゅ
- Japanese terms read with on'yomi
- Japanese terms derived from Sinitic languages
- Japanese nouns
- Japanese terms spelled with fourth grade kanji
- Japanese terms written with two Han script characters
- Mandarin terms with audio links
- Mandarin adjectives
- Mandarin adjectives in simplified script
- Mandarin adjectives in traditional script
- Chinese hanzi
- Mandarin nouns
- Mandarin nouns in simplified script
- Mandarin nouns in traditional script
- cmn:Politics
- Min Nan nouns
- Min Nan nouns in traditional script
