民

See also: 艮 and 良
民 U+6C11, 民
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6C11
← 氐
[U+6C10] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 氒 →
[U+6C12]

Translingual
Stroke order

Han character

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

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.
 民

Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 民
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 (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

Pictogram (象形) – an eye pierced by a dagger. This may be interpreted as 盲 (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 民
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 眞 (43)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 彌鄰切
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
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 民
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 民
Reading # 1/1
No. 9130
Phonetic
component		 民
Rime
group		 眞
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 民
Old
Chinese		 /*min/

Definitions

民

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

Compounds
Derived terms from 民

Japanese

Kanji
民

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. nation, peoples

Readings

Compounds

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

Korean

Hanja

民 • (min)

  • Eumhun:
    • Sound (hangeul): 민 (McCune–Reischauer: min, Yale: min)
    • Name (hangeul): 백성 (revised: baekseong, McCune–Reischauer: 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

民 (dân, rân)

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Noun

民

  1. Hán tự form of dân.
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