Kanji Detail for 閩 - "ethnic group, fujian, state name"

閩

Non-Jōyō Kanji

Meaning
閩 means "ethnic group, fujian, state name."
1. Ethnic group - An ancient people who lived in the Fujian area.
2. Fujian - Another name for Fujian Province.
3. State name - One of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, founded by Wang Shenzhi.
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

Fujian province; river; tribe

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

Fujian province; a river; a tribe

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

short name for Fujian province 福建[Fu2 jian4]; also pr. [Min2]

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

Fujian province; a river; a tribe

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

Anciently referred to the people of Fujian. 七閩 (Seven Min) is found in the Rites of Zhou. Today, Fujian Province is called 閩, the land of the ancient Seven Min.
Onyomi

ben(べん)

bun(ぶん)

min(みん)

mon(もん)
Kunyomi
none
Strokes

14 strokes
Radical

門 (mon・mongamae・kadogamae)
Related Keywords
ethnic group people lived fujian area another name province state five dynasties ten kingdoms founded