憫

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See also: 悯
憫 U+61AB, 憫
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-61AB
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 憬 →

Translingual

Han character

憫 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 心日弓大 (PANK), four-corner 97020, composition ⿰忄閔)

  1. pity, sympathize with, grieve for

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 403, character 32
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11252
  • Dae Jaweon: page 744, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2357, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+61AB

Chinese

trad. 憫
simp. 悯
alternative forms 愍
閔／闵

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (閔) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
憫 *mrɯnʔ
閔 *mrɯnʔ
潣 *mrɯnʔ, *mɯːlʔ
簢 *mrɯnʔ
燘 *mɯːlʔ, *hmɯːlʔ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 憫
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 眞 (44)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 眉殞切
Baxter minX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/mˠiɪnX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/mᵚinX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/mienX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/mjinX/
Li
Rong 		/mjĕnX/
Wang
Li 		/mǐĕnX/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/mi̯ĕnX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		mǐn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		man5
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 憫
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		mǐn
Middle
Chinese 		‹ minX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*mrəʔ/
English grieved

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 憫
Reading # 1/1
No. 9153
Phonetic
component 		閔
Rime
group 		文
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		愍
Old
Chinese 		/*mrɯnʔ/

Definitions

憫

  1. to sympathize; to pity; to feel compassion for
  2. (literary) depressed; sorrowful

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

憫

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • Go-on: みん (min)
  • Kan-on: びん (bin)
  • Kun: あわれむ (awaremu, 憫れむ)、うれえる (ureeru, 憫える)

Korean

Hanja

憫 (eumhun 민망할 민 (minmanghal min))

  1. hanja form? of 민 (“pity, sympathize with, grieve for”)

Vietnamese

Han character

憫: Hán Nôm readings: mẫn

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