閔

See also: 闵

閔	U+9594, 閔 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9594

← 間
[U+9593]

CJK Unified Ideographs

閕 →
[U+9595]

Translingual

Han character

閔 (Kangxi radical 169, 門+4, 12 strokes, cangjie input 日弓卜大 (ANYK), four-corner 7740₀, composition ⿵門文)

Derived characters

𠎓, 𡢄, 憫, 𢵢, 潣, 𣚾, 燘, 𭷴, 𭹺, 𪾽, 𦅤, 𧲃, 簢, 𤺖, 𢡻

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 1333, character 3
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41251
Dae Jaweon: page 1839, character 3
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4290, character 2
Unihan data for U+9594

Chinese

trad.		閔
simp.		闵

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 閔
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
憫	*mrɯnʔ
閔	*mrɯnʔ
潣	mrɯnʔ, mɯːlʔ
簢	*mrɯnʔ
燘	mɯːlʔ, hmɯːlʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *mrɯnʔ): semantic 門 (“gate”) + phonetic 文 (OC *mɯn)

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): mǐn (min³)

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄣˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): man⁵
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): bín

(Teochew, Peng'im): miêng² / miang²

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/
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/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: miêng² / miang²
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: miéng / miáng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mieŋ⁵²/, /miaŋ⁵²/

Note:

miêng2 - Chaozhou;
miang2 - Shantou.

Middle Chinese: minX

Rime
Character	閔
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	眞 (44)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	眉殞切
Baxter	minX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mˠiɪn^X/
Pan Wuyun	/mᵚin^X/
Shao Rongfen	/mien^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/mjin^X/
Li Rong	/mjĕn^X/
Wang Li	/mǐĕn^X/
Bernhard Karlgren	/mi̯ĕn^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mǐn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	man⁵

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*mrə[n]ʔ/

(Zhengzhang): /*mrɯnʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	閔
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	mǐn
Middle Chinese	‹ min^X ›
Old Chinese	/*mrə[n]ʔ/
English	grieved
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	閔
Reading #	1/1
No.	9154
Phonetic component
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	愍
Old Chinese	/*mrɯnʔ/
Notes	說文文聲

Definitions

閔

to pity; to feel compassion for
alt. forms: 憫 / 悯 (mǐn), 愍 (mǐn)
to worry; to concern
a surname

Compounds

覯閔 / 觏闵 (gòumǐn)
謝東閔 / 谢东闵
遘閔 / 遘闵
閔予小子 / 闵予小子
閔免 / 闵免 (mǐnmiǎn)
閔凶
閔刻本 / 闵刻本
閔勉 / 闵勉 (mǐnmiǎn)
閔子裡 / 闵子里
閔子騫 / 闵子骞
閔惜 / 闵惜
閔然 / 闵然
閔閔 / 闵闵
隱閔 / 隐闵

Japanese

Kanji

閔

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

Go-on: みん (min)
Kan-on: びん (bin)
Kun: あわれむ (awaremu, 閔れむ)、うれえる (ureeru, 閔える)

Korean

Hanja

閔 • (min) (hangeul 민, revised min, McCune–Reischauer min, Yale min)

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Vietnamese

Han character

閔: Hán Nôm readings: mẫn

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