民家

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Chinese

the people; nationality; citizen
home; family; ‑ist
home; family; ‑ist; ‑er; ‑ian; measure word for stores and schools
 
simp. and trad.
(民家)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (4) (28)
Final () (43) (98)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III II
Fanqie
Baxter mjin kae
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/miɪn/ /kˠa/
Pan
Wuyun
/min/ /kᵚa/
Shao
Rongfen
/mjen/ /ka/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/min/ /kaɨ/
Li
Rong
/miĕn/ /ka/
Wang
Li
/mĭĕn/ /ka/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/mi̯ĕn/ /ka/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
mín jiā
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
man4 gaa1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
mín jiā
Middle
Chinese
‹ mjin › ‹  ›
Old
Chinese
/*mi/ /*kˁra/
English people household

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. 9130 5919
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*min/ /*kraː/

Noun

民家

  1. civilian home/house
  2. Bai, an ethnic group living primarily in Yunnan, China

Japanese

Kanji in this term
みん
Grade: 4

Grade: 2
on'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

(みん)() (minka

  1. civilian house

References

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