人命

Chinese

		man; person; people	life; fate
simp. and trad. (人命)		人	命

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): rénmìng

(Zhuyin): ㄖㄣˊ ㄇㄧㄥˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): jan⁴ meng⁶
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): ngìn-miang
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): lâng-miā / jîn-bēng / lîn-bēng

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: rénmìng
  - Zhuyin: ㄖㄣˊ ㄇㄧㄥˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: rénmìng
  - Wade–Giles: jên²-ming⁴
  - Yale: rén-mìng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: renminq
  - Palladius: жэньмин (žɛnʹmin)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʐən³⁵ miŋ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: jan⁴ meng⁶
  - Yale: yàhn mehng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: jan⁴ meng⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: yen⁴ méng⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐn²¹ mɛːŋ²²/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ngìn-miang
  - Hakka Romanization System: ngin^ˇ miang
  - Hagfa Pinyim: ngin² miang⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /ŋin¹¹ mi̯aŋ⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lâng-miā
  - Tâi-lô: lâng-miā
  - Phofsit Daibuun: langmia
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /laŋ¹³⁻²² miã²²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /laŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ miã³³/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /laŋ²⁴⁻²² miã²²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /laŋ²⁴⁻²² miã⁴¹/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /laŋ²³⁻³³ miã³³/
- (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: jîn-bēng
  - Tâi-lô: jîn-bīng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: jinbeng
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /d͡zin¹³⁻²² biɪŋ²²/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /zin²³⁻³³ biɪŋ³³/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lîn-bēng
  - Tâi-lô: lîn-bīng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: linbeng
  - IPA (Taipei): /lin²⁴⁻¹¹ biɪŋ³³/
  - IPA (Xiamen): /lin²⁴⁻²² biɪŋ²²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /lin²⁴⁻²² biɪŋ⁴¹/

Noun

人命

human life

Synonyms

(Wu) 人性命

Derived terms

人命危淺 / 人命危浅 (rénmìngwēiqiǎn)
人命關天 / 人命关天 (rénmìngguāntiān)
出人命 (chūrénmìng)
攤了人命 / 摊了人命
草菅人命 (cǎojiānrénmìng)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (人命):

→ Japanese: 人命(じんめい) (jinmei)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
人	命
じん Grade: 1	めい Grade: 3
on'yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) じんめー [jìńméé] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
IPA^(key): [d͡ʑĩmːe̞ː]

Noun

人(じん)命(めい) • (jinmei)

human life

References

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

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

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