珉

珉 U+73C9, 珉 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-73C9 ← 珈 [U+73C8] CJK Unified Ideographs 珊 → [U+73CA]

See also: 玟

Translingual

Han character

珉 (radical 96 玉+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 一土口女心 (MGRVP), composition ⿰𤣩民)

1. jade-like stone

References

• KangXi: page 729, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 20916
• Dae Jaweon: page 1141, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1108, character 12
• Unihan data for U+73C9

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		珉

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mín (min²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄣˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: mín
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄣˊ
    • Wade-Giles: min²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: min
    • IPA ^(key): /min³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /mˠiɪn/▼

Rime
Character	珉
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	眞 (44)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	Chongniu III
Fanqie	武巾切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mˠiɪn/
Pan Wuyun	/mᵚin/
Shao Rongfen	/mien/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/mjin/
Li Rong	/mjĕn/
Wang Li	/mǐĕn/
Bernard Karlgren	/mi̯ĕn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mín

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*mr[ə][n]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*mrin/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	珉
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	mín
Middle Chinese	‹ min ›
Old Chinese	/*mr[ə][n]/
English	a kind of precious stone
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	珉
Reading #	1/1
No.	9134
Phonetic component	民
Rime group	眞
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	珉
Old Chinese	/*mrin/

Definitions

珉

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Japanese

Kanji

珉

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. jade-like stone

Readings

• On: びん (bin), みん (min)

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Korean

Hanja

珉 • (min) (hangeul 민, revised min, McCune-Reischauer min, Yale min)

1. jade

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Vietnamese

Han character

珉 (mân, mần)

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