泯

泯 U+6CEF, 泯 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6CEF ← 泮 [U+6CEE] CJK Unified Ideographs 泰 → [U+6CF0]

Translingual

Han character

泯 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 水口女心 (ERVP), four-corner 3714₇, composition ⿰氵民)

1. destroy, eliminate
2. perish

Derived characters

• 𢛣

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 618, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17324
• Dae Jaweon: page 1013, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1596, character 3
• Unihan data for U+6CEF

Chinese

simp. and trad.		泯
alternative forms		冺

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (民) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	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

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mǐn (min³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄣˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): man⁵
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): mín

  (Hailu, HRS): min^ˊ

• Eastern Min (BUC): mīng
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): ming³
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bín

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mǐn
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄣˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mǐn
    • Wade–Giles: min³
    • Yale: mǐn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: miin
    • Palladius: минь (minʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /min²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: man⁵
    • Yale: máhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: man⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: men⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɐn¹³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: mín
    • Hakka Romanization System: min^ˋ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: min³
    • Sinological IPA: /min³¹/
  • (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
    • Hakka Romanization System: min^ˊ
    • Sinological IPA: /min²⁴/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: mīng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /miŋ³³/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: ming³
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: mîng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /miŋ⁴⁵³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: ming³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /miŋ³³²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bín
    • Tâi-lô: bín
    • Phofsit Daibuun: bien
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /bin⁵³/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /bin⁵⁵⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /bin⁵³/
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /bin⁵³/
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /bin⁴¹/

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• Middle Chinese: mjin, mjinX

Rime
Character	泯	泯
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	明 (4)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	眞 (43)	眞 (43)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	彌鄰切	武盡切
Baxter	mjin	mjinX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/miɪn/	/miɪnX/
Pan Wuyun	/min/	/minX/
Shao Rongfen	/mjen/	/mjenX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/min/	/minX/
Li Rong	/miĕn/	/miĕnX/
Wang Li	/mĭĕn/	/mĭĕnX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/mi̯ĕn/	/mi̯ĕnX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mín	mǐn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	man4	man5

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*mi[n]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*min/, /*minʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	泯
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	mǐn
Middle Chinese	‹ mjin ›
Old Chinese	/*mi[n]/
English	destroy
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	泯	泯
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	9131	9139
Phonetic component	民	民
Rime group	眞	眞
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	民	泯
Old Chinese	/*min/	/*minʔ/

Definitions

泯

1. to destroy; to obliterate; to extinguish; to vanish

Compounds

• 不泯 (bùmǐn)
• 丹誠不泯 / 丹诚不泯
• 沒齒難泯 / 没齿难泯
• 泯沒 / 泯没
• 泯泯
• 泯滅 / 泯灭 (mǐnmiè)
• 泯然
• 泯然無跡 / 泯然无迹
• 泯然無際 / 泯然无际
• 泯絕 / 泯绝 (mǐnjué)
• 泯耳攢蹄 / 泯耳攒蹄
• 泯跡 / 泯迹
• 盛德不泯
• 眩泯
• 童心未泯 (tóngxīnwèimǐn)
• 至死不泯
• 良心未泯

References

• “泯”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “泯”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 158.

Japanese

Kanji

泯

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: みん (min)、めん (men)
• Kan-on: びん (bin)、べん (ben)
• Kun: ほろびる (horobiru, 泯びる)

Korean

Hanja

泯 (eum 민 (min))

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Vietnamese

Han character

泯: Hán Nôm readings: mẫn

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References

• Nom Foundation