泯

泯	U+6CEF, 泯 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6CEF

← 泮
[U+6CEE]

CJK Unified Ideographs

泰 →
[U+6CF0]

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

𢛣

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

simp. and trad.		泯
alternative forms		冺

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (民) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
眠	*miːn
民	*min
泯	min, minʔ
怋	min, mɯːn
岷	*mrin
珉	*mrin
罠	*mrin
笢	mrin, minʔ
鈱	*mrin
抿	mrɯn, mrɯn, *mrɯnʔ
刡	*minʔ
敃	*mrinʔ
愍	*mrinʔ
暋	*mrinʔ
蟁	*mɯn

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): mǐn (min³)

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄣˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): man⁵
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): mín

(Hailu, HRS): min^ˊ
Eastern Min (BUC): mīng
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): ming³
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bín

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: mǐn
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄣˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: mǐn
  - Wade–Giles: min³
  - Yale: mǐn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: miin
  - Palladius: минь (minʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /min²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: man⁵
  - Yale: máhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: man⁵
  - Guangdong Romanization: men⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɐn¹³/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: mín
  - Hakka Romanization System: min^ˋ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: min³
  - Sinological IPA: /min³¹/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
  - Hakka Romanization System: min^ˊ
  - Sinological IPA: /min²⁴/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: mīng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /miŋ³³/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ming³
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: mîng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /miŋ⁴⁵³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ming³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /miŋ³³²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bín
  - Tâi-lô: bín
  - Phofsit Daibuun: bien
  - IPA (Xiamen): /bin⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /bin⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /bin⁵³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /bin⁵³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /bin⁴¹/

Middle Chinese: mjin, mjinX

Rime
Character	泯	泯
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	明 (4)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	眞 (43)	眞 (43)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	彌鄰切	武盡切
Baxter	mjin	mjinX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/miɪn/	/miɪn^X/
Pan Wuyun	/min/	/min^X/
Shao Rongfen	/mjen/	/mjen^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/min/	/min^X/
Li Rong	/miĕn/	/miĕn^X/
Wang Li	/mĭĕn/	/mĭĕn^X/
Bernhard Karlgren	/mi̯ĕn/	/mi̯ĕn^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mín	mǐn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	man⁴	man⁵

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*mi[n]/

(Zhengzhang): /*min/, /*minʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	泯
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	mǐn
Middle Chinese	‹ mjin ›
Old Chinese	/*mi[n]/
English	destroy
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] 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	泯	泯
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	9131	9139
Phonetic component	民	民
Rime group	眞	眞
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	民
Old Chinese	/*min/	/*minʔ/

Definitions

泯

to destroy; to obliterate; to extinguish; to vanish

Compounds

不泯 (bùmǐn)
丹誠不泯 / 丹诚不泯
沒齒難泯 / 没齿难泯
泯沒 / 泯没
泯泯
泯滅 / 泯灭 (mǐnmiè)
泯然
泯然無跡 / 泯然无迹
泯然無際 / 泯然无际
泯絕 / 泯绝 (mǐnjué)
泯耳攢蹄 / 泯耳攒蹄
泯跡 / 泯迹
盛德不泯
眩泯
童心未泯 (tóngxīnwèimǐn)
至死不泯
良心未泯

References

“泯”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “泯”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 158.

Japanese

Kanji

泯

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: みん (min)、めん (men)
Kan-on: びん (bin)、べん (ben)
Kun: ほろびる (horobiru, 泯びる)

Korean

Hanja

泯 (eum 민 (min))

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Vietnamese

Han character

泯: Hán Nôm readings: mẫn

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References

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