See also: and
U+6C11, 民
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6C11

[U+6C10]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+6C12]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

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

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 598, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17028
  • Dae Jaweon: page 988, character 32
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2131, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+6C11

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*miːn
*min
*min, *minʔ
*min, *mɯːn
*mrin
*mrin
*mrin
*mrin, *minʔ
*mrin
*mrɯn, *mrɯn, *mrɯnʔ
*minʔ
*mrinʔ
*mrinʔ
*mrinʔ
*mɯn

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

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-mi(j)-n (people, man, human being).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (4)
Final () (43)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/miɪn/
Pan
Wuyun
/min/
Shao
Rongfen
/mjen/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/min/
Li
Rong
/miĕn/
Wang
Li
/mĭĕn/
Bernard
Karlgren
/mi̯ĕn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
mín
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
mín
Middle
Chinese
‹ mjin ›
Old
Chinese
/*mi[ŋ]/
English people

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 9130
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*min/

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


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. nation, peoples

Readings

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
たみ
Grade: 4
kun’yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of – see the following entry at たみ.
たみ【民】
[noun]citizen
(This term, , is a kanji spelling of たみ.)

Korean

Hanja

• (min)

  • Eumhun:
    • Sound (hangeul): (McCuneReischauer: min, Yale: min)
    • Name (hangeul): 백성 (revised: baekseong, McCuneReischauer: paeksŏng, Yale: paykseng)
  1. (백성): the people, the populace, the nation

Compounds

Usage notes

  1. 民心, 天心. vox populi, vox dei. (The voice of the people is the voice of God.) The one may be a calque of the other, or vice versa.

Vietnamese

Han character

(dân, rân)

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Noun

  1. Hán tự form of dân.
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