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Kanji Detail for 民 - "people, citizen, folk"

民

  • Meaning

    民 means "people, citizen, folk."

    1. People - Persons; human beings.

    2. Citizens - The common populace.

    3. Subjects - Those who are governed.

  • Words using 民

    • 住民 じゅうみん Listen inhabitant; resident; citizen
    • 国民 こくみん Listen people (of a country); nation; citizen
    • 市民 しみん Listen citizen (of a country); citizenry; citizen (of a city)
    • 民主 みんしゅ Listen democracy; popular sovereignty; Democratic Party of Japan (1998-2016)
    • 民族 みんぞく Listen people; race; nation
    • 民間 みんかん Listen private; non-governmental; non-official
    • 自民 じみん Listen Liberal Democratic Party; LDP
    • 自民党 じみんとう Listen Liberal Democratic Party; LDP

  • Four-character idioms with 民

    • 半官半民 はんかんはんみん Listen semi-governmental; semi-official
    • 民族自決 みんぞくじけつ Listen self-determination of peoples
    • 国利民福 こくりみんぷく Listen national interests and the people's welfare
    • 官尊民卑 かんそんみんぴ Listen putting the officials and bureaucrats above the people; treating the governors as more important than the governed; statism
    • 小国寡民 しょうこくかみん Listen small country with a small population (The Chinese philosopher Lao-tze's ideal of a state)
    • 救国済民 きゅうこくさいみん Listen saving a nation and providing relief to the people

  • Origin of 民

    A pictograph read, uncomfortably, as an eye pierced by a blade — a blinded captive set to labor: the common people as those who work and do not see the whole. The character's origin is grim; its meaning grew gentler.

    How to remember it: An eye and a blade — a hard old picture of the labouring many: the people.

    Sources: en.wiktionary.org · mojinavi.com

  • Tattoo check: 民

    • Verified meaning: people, citizen, folk
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read たみ, みん)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 民

    Given names 民(たみ)Listen

    Surnames 民(みん)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    people; nation; subjects

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    people, subjects, citizens

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    surname Min

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    citizens, subjects; a nation's people

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Human beings under political authority are called 民. As in people (人民), citizens (國民), and the like.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    min(ミン) ミン

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    tami(たみ) たみ

  • Strokes

    tip

    5 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    氏 (uji)

  • Related Keywords

    people citizen folk mankind subjects civilians common community constituents democracy denizens inhabitants masses nation populace population public residents society voters

Sentences including 民

  • The japanese are a very clean people.

  • The japanese are an industrious people.

  • They became citizens of japan.

  • He gave an address to the nation on tv.

  • They are a peace-loving people.

  • There are several peoples in the country.

  • Every citizen ought to help them.

  • The boat people asked for food.

  • The english are a hardy people.

  • Politics has much to do with me.

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