村民

Chinese

		village	the people; nationality; citizen
simp. and trad. (村民)		村	民

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): cūnmín

(Zhuyin): ㄘㄨㄣㄇㄧㄣˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): cyun¹ man⁴
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): chhun-bîn / chhoan-bîn

(Teochew, Peng'im): ceng¹ ming⁵
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹tshen-min₆

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: cūnmín
  - Zhuyin: ㄘㄨㄣㄇㄧㄣˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: cunmín
  - Wade–Giles: tsʻun¹-min²
  - Yale: tswūn-mín
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsuenmin
  - Palladius: цуньминь (cunʹminʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰu̯ən⁵⁵ min³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: cyun¹ man⁴
  - Yale: chyūn màhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsyn¹ man⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: qun¹ men⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰyːn⁵⁵ mɐn²¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhun-bîn
  - Tâi-lô: tshun-bîn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zhunbiin
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰun⁴⁴⁻³³ bin²³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰun⁴⁴⁻³³ bin²⁴/
- (Hokkien: variant in Taiwan)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhoan-bîn
  - Tâi-lô: tshuan-bîn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zhoanbiin
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰuan⁴⁴⁻³³ bin²³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰuan⁴⁴⁻³³ bin²⁴/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: ceng¹ ming⁵
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshṳng mîng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɯŋ³³⁻²³ miŋ⁵⁵/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ¹tshen-min₆
  - MiniDict: tshen^平 min^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹tshen-min₃
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡sʰən⁵⁵ min²¹/

Noun

村民

(countable) villager; country folk (Classifier: 名 m; 位 m; 個／个 m)
村民全體去首都抗議新法令。 [MSC, trad.]
村民全体去首都抗议新法令。 [MSC, simp.]
Cūnmín quántǐ qù shǒudū kàngyì xīn fǎlìng. [Pinyin]
The villagers went en masse to the capital to protest the new regulation.

Synonyms

草地人 (Min Nan)
莊下人 / 庄下人 (Hakka)
鄉下人 / 乡下人 (xiāngxiarén)
鄉人 / 乡人 (xiāngrén)
鄉民 / 乡民 (xiāngmín)
鄉裡人 / 乡里人 (xian¹ li ren²) (Xiang)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
村	民
そん Grade: 1	みん Grade: 4
on'yomi

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) そんみん [sòńmíń] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
IPA^(key): [sõ̞mʲːĩɴ]

Noun

村(そん)民(みん) • (sonmin)

villager or villagers, the inhabitants of a village

Synonyms

村人(むらびと) (murabito)

References

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