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Translingual
Han character
泯 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 水口女心 (ERVP), four-corner 37147, composition ⿰氵民)
- destroy, eliminate
- perish
Derived characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 618, character 14
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17324
- Dae Jaweon: page 1013, character 9
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1596, character 3
- Unihan data for U+6CEF
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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| 眠
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*miːn
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| 民
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*min
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| 泯
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*min, *minʔ
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| 怋
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*min, *mɯːn
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| 岷
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*mrin
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| 珉
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*mrin
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| 罠
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*mrin
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| 笢
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*mrin, *minʔ
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| 鈱
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*mrin
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| 抿
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*mrɯn, *mrɯn, *mrɯnʔ
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| 刡
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*minʔ
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| 敃
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*mrinʔ
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| 愍
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*mrinʔ
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| 暋
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*mrinʔ
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| 蟁
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*mɯn
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Etymology
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Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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泯
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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mǐn
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ mjin ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*mi/
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| English
|
destroy
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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.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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泯
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泯
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| Reading #
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1/2
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2/2
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| No.
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9131
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9139
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Phonetic
component
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民
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民
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Rime
group
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眞
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眞
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Rime
subdivision
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1
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1
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Corresponding
MC rime
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民
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泯
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Old
Chinese
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/*min/
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/*minʔ/
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Definitions
泯
- to destroy; to obliterate; to extinguish; to vanish
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
泯
(Hyōgai kanji)
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
泯 (eum 민 (min))
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Vietnamese
Han character
泯: Hán Nôm readings: mẫn
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References