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U+6C11, 民
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6C11

[U+6C10]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+6C12]
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U+2EA0, ⺠
CJK RADICAL CIVILIAN

[U+2E9F]
CJK Radicals Supplement
[U+2EA1]

Translingual

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Han character

(Kangxi radical 83, +1, 5 strokes, cangjie input 口女心 (RVP), four-corner 77747, composition ⿸⿰𠄌𫠠)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 598, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17028
  • Dae Jaweon: page 988, character 32
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2131, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+6C11
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Chinese

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Glyph origin

More information Historical forms of the character 民, Western Zhou ...

Pictogram (象形) – an eye pierced by a dagger. This may be interpreted as (OC *mraːŋ, “blind”) or “to enslave by blinding > slave”. See also .

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-mi(j)-n (people, man, human being). Cognate with Tibetan མི (mi) and Dzongkha མི (mi).

Pronunciation


Note:
  • mêng5 - Jieyang;
  • ming5 - other places.

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Definitions

  1. people; citizens
       guómín   citizen
  2. folk; popular
       mínyáo   folk song
  3. member of an ethnic group
  4. person of a particular occupation
  5. civilian

Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic ():
  • Japanese: (みん) (min)
  • Korean: 민(民) (min)
  • Vietnamese: dân ()

References

  • ”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database), 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014
  • 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long]; 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu]; 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying]; 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019), “”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 231.
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Japanese

Kanji

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. nation, peoples

Readings

  • Go-on: みん (min, Jōyō)
  • Kan-on: びん (bin)
  • Kun: たみ (tami, , Jōyō)
  • Nanori: たみ (tami)ひと (hito) (mi)みたみ (mitami)もと (moto)

Compounds

Etymology 1

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For pronunciation and definitions of – see the following entry.
たみ
[noun] citizen
(This term, , is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Etymology 2

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From Middle Chinese (MC mjin).

Pronunciation

Affix

(みん) (min) みん (min)?

  1. citizen

Suffix

(みん) (-min) みん (-min)?

  1. (Internet slang, dated) regular of a certain social website or website section
    なんJ民(ジェイみん)nanjei-minone who frequents the 2channel NanJ board

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese (MC mjin).

Pronunciation

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

(eumhun 백성 (baekseong min))

  1. hanja form? of (the people; the populace; the nation)

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전/電子字典.
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Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: dân

Noun

  1. chữ Hán form of dân
    1. (collective) people
    2. (collective) members of an ethnic group
    3. (collective) people living in a geographical area
    4. (collective) people of a particular occupation
    5. (collective, literary) civilians

Compounds

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