民

Stroke order

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

• 眠, 氓, 罠, 囻, 苠, 冺, 呡, 垊, 姄, 岷, 㢯, 怋, 抿, 泯, 珉, 刡, 敃, 䪸, 㥸, 鴖, 昬, 蟁, 𪜳, 䂥, 䇇, 𤱕, 𤵤, 𤿕, 𥞔, 𦊞, 䋋, 笢, 鈱, 𨳶, 䛉, 䟨, 䡑, 𧻎

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

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

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

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-mi(j)-n (“people, man, human being”). Cognate with Tibetan མི (mi) and Dzongkha མི (mi).

民

1. people; citizens

   • 庖有肥肉，廄有肥馬，民有飢色，野有餓莩，此率獸而食人也。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     庖有肥肉，厩有肥马，民有饥色，野有饿莩，此率兽而食人也。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Mencius, c. 4^th century BCE

     Páo yǒu féi ròu, jiù yǒu féi mǎ, mín yǒu jī sè, yě yǒu èpiǎo, cǐ shuài shòu ér shí rén yě.

     In your kitchen there is fat meat; in your stables there are fat horses. But your people have the look of hunger, and on the wilds there are those who have died of famine. This is leading on beasts to devour men.

   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

• “民”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

1. nation, peoples

• Go-on: みん (min, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: びん (bin)
• Kun: たみ (tami, 民, Jōyō)
• Nanori: たみ (tami)、ひと (hito)、み (mi)、みたみ (mitami)、もと (moto)

From Middle Chinese 民 (MC mjin).

• IPA^(key):

民(みん) • (min) ^{←みん (min)?}

1. citizen

民(みん) • (-min) ^{←みん (-min)?}

1. (Internet slang, dated) regular of a certain social website or website section

   なんJ民(ジェイみん) ― nanjei-min ― one who frequents the 2channel NanJ board

From Middle Chinese 民 (MC mjin).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key):
• Phonetic hangul:

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

民

Wikisource

民 (eumhun 백성 민 (baekseong min))

1. hanja form^? of 민 (“the people; the populace; the nation”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

民: Hán Nôm readings: dân, rân

民

1. chữ Hán form of dân.
   1. (collective) people
   2. (collective) members of an ethnic group
   3. (collective) people living in a geographical area
   4. (collective) people of a particular occupation
   5. (collective, literary) civilians