黎民

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Chinese

surname; black; Lebanon (abbrev.) the people; nationality; citizen
trad. (黎民) 黎 民
simp. #(黎民) 黎 民

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Rime
Character 黎 民
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 齊 (39) 眞 (43)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) IV III
Fanqie 郎奚切 彌鄰切
Baxter lej mjin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/lei/ /miɪn/
Pan
Wuyun 		/lei/ /min/
Shao
Rongfen 		/lɛi/ /mjen/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/lɛj/ /min/
Li
Rong 		/lei/ /miĕn/
Wang
Li 		/liei/ /mĭĕn/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/liei/ /mi̯ĕn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		lí mín
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		lai4 man4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 黎 黎 民
Reading # 1/2 2/2 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		lí lí mín
Middle
Chinese 		‹ lej › ‹ lej › ‹ mjin ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ˁij/ (Cf. 耆 0552l ɡij < *rij ‘old’) /*ˁij/ /*mi/
English old black people

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * 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 黎 民
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 7880 9130
Phonetic
component 		利 民
Rime
group 		脂 眞
Rime
subdivision 		1 1
Corresponding
MC rime 		黎 民
Old
Chinese 		/*riːl/ /*min/

Noun

黎民

  1. (literary) the common people; commoners; the masses

Synonyms

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (黎民):

→ Vietnamese: dân đen (calque)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
黎 民
れい
Jinmeiyō 		みん
Grade: 4
on'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

黎(れい)民(みん) • (reimin) 

  1. the common people, commoners, the masses

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja in this term
黎民

Noun

黎民 • (yeomin) (hangeul 여민)

  1. hanja form? of 여민 (“the common people, commoners, the masses”)

Noun

黎民 • (ryeomin) (hangeul 려민)

  1. hanja form? of 려민 (“the common people, commoners, the masses (North Korean)”)
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