閩

See also: 闽

Translingual

Han character

閩 (Kangxi radical 169, 門+6, 14 strokes, cangjie input 日弓中一戈 (ANLMI), four-corner 7713₆, composition ⿵門虫)

Derived characters

• 𤁝

Related characters

• 闽 (Simplified Chinese)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1335, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41315
• Dae Jaweon: page 1841, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4295, character 9
• Unihan data for U+95A9

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Chinese

trad.		閩
simp.		闽
alternative forms		𨷷

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
蔄	*roːs, *mruːns
闅	*min, *mrɯn, *mɯn
閩	*mrɯn, *mɯn
蕄	*mɯːŋ, *mrɯːŋ
門	*mɯːn
捫	*mɯːn
悶	*mɯːns
聞	*mɯn, *mɯns
閿	*mɯn
問	*mɯns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *mrɯn, *mɯn) : phonetic 門 (OC *mɯːn) + semantic 虫 (“snake”). The 虫 radical was a common component of the names of barbarians (Schuessler, 2007), probably reflecting the Min people's worship of snakes (Li, 2017).

Etymology

In most modern Min dialects and some other southern dialects (including Hakka and Xiang), it is read with a level tone (平聲), which is the expected reflex based on rime dictionaries. In Mandarin and the remaining southern dialects, it is read with a rising tone (上聲), probably due to analogy with the phonetic component of 閔 (MC minX) (Li, 2017).

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Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 閩

1. Min people (ancient ethnic group)
2. (～江) Min River (a river in Fujian, China)
3. Fujian
4. (～語, ～方言) Min languages
5. a surname

See also

• 蠻／蛮 (mán)

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Japanese

Kanji

閩

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: まん (man); みん (min); もん (mon)
• Kan-on: ばん (ban); びん (bin); ぶん (bun)

Compounds

Compounds

• 閩越(びんえつ) (Bin'etsu): Minyue
• 閩江(びんこう) (Binkō)
• 閩南語(びんなんご) (Binnango): Min Nan
• 洛閩(らくびん)の学(がく) (rakubin no gaku)
• 濂洛関閩(れんらくかんびん)の学(がく) (renrakukanbin no gaku)

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Korean

Hanja

閩 • (min) (hangeul 민, revised min, McCune–Reischauer min, Yale min)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 閩 (mân)

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