庶民

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Chinese

ordinary the people; nationality; citizen
simp. and trad.
(庶民)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (26) (4)
Final () (22) (43)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter syoH mjin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɕɨʌH/ /miɪn/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɕiɔH/ /min/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɕiɔH/ /mjen/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɕɨə̆H/ /min/
Li
Rong
/ɕiɔH/ /miĕn/
Wang
Li
/ɕĭoH/ /mĭĕn/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ɕi̯woH/ /mi̯ĕn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
shù mín
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
syu3 man4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
shù mín
Middle
Chinese
‹ syoH › ‹ mjin ›
Old
Chinese
/*s-tak-s/ /*mi/
English numerous; commoner 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
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 11905 9130
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*hljaɡs/ /*min/
Notes

Noun

庶民

  1. (literary) commoners; ordinary citizens; plebeians
    天子犯法庶民 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
    天子犯法庶民 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
    tiānzǐ fànfǎ, yǔ shùmín tóng zuì
    When the emperor commits crimes, he is equally guilty like commoners

Synonyms

Japanese

Kanji in this term
しょ
Grade: S
みん
Grade: 4
on'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

(しょ)(みん) (shomin

  1. commoners, common people

References

  1. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN