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敏
敏
Translingual
Han character
敏 (radical 66 攴+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 人卜人大 (OYOK), four-corner 88540, composition ⿰每攵)
References
- KangXi: page 471, character 4
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13202
- Dae Jaweon: page 823, character 5
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1463, character 1
- Unihan data for U+654F
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
敏 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (母) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 脢 | *mɯːs, *mɯː, *mɯːs |
| 挴 | *mlɯːʔ, *mɯːʔ |
| 海 | *hmlɯːʔ |
| 毐 | *ʔmɯː, *ʔmɯːʔ |
| 呣 | *mɯ |
| 拇 | *mɯʔ |
| 母 | *mɯʔ |
| 胟 | *mɯʔ |
| 姆 | *mɯʔ, *mɯs, *maːʔ |
| 畮 | *mɯʔ |
| 踇 | *mɯʔ |
| 苺 | *mɯs, *mɯːʔ, *mɯːs |
| 莓 | *mɯs, *mɯː, *mɯːs |
| 敏 | *mrɯʔ, *mrɯŋʔ |
| 鰵 | *mrɯŋʔ |
| 慜 | *mrɯŋʔ |
| 毋 | *ma |
| 梅 | *mɯː |
| 酶 | *mɯː |
| 鋂 | *mɯː |
| 每 | *mɯːʔ |
| 毎 | *mɯːs |
| 痗 | *mɯːs, *hmɯːs |
| 晦 | *hmɯːs |
| 誨 | *hmɯːs |
| 悔 | *hmɯːʔ, *hmɯːs |
| 霉 | *mrɯl |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): man5
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): men
- Min Dong (BUC): mīng
- Min Nan (POJ): bín
- Wu (Wiktionary): min (T3)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄣˇ
- Wade-Giles: min3
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: miin
- IPA (key): /min²¹⁴/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: man5
- Yale: máhn
- Cantonese Pinyin: man5
- IPA (key): /mɐn¹³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: men
- Hakka Romanization System: men
- Hagfa Pinyim: men4
- IPA: /men⁵⁵/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: mīng
- IPA (key): /miŋ³³/
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- (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/
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: min (T3)
- IPA (key): /mɪɲ²³/
- (Shanghainese)
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 敏 |
|---|---|---|
| Mandarin | Beijing | /min²¹⁴/ |
| Harbin | /min²¹³/ | |
| Tianjin | /min¹³/ | |
| Jinan | /miẽ⁵⁵/ | |
| Qingdao | /miə̃⁵⁵/ | |
| Zhengzhou | /min⁵³/ | |
| Xi'an | /miẽ⁵³/ | |
| Xining | /miə̃⁵³/ | |
| Yinchuan | /miŋ⁵³/ | |
| Lanzhou | /mĩn⁴⁴²/ | |
| Ürümqi | /miŋ⁵¹/ | |
| Wuhan | /min⁴²/ | |
| Chengdu | /min⁵³/ | |
| Guiyang | /min⁴²/ | |
| Kunming | /mĩ⁵³/ | |
| Nanjing | /min²¹²/ | |
| Hefei | /min²⁴/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /miəŋ⁵³/ |
| Pingyao | /miŋ⁵³/ | |
| Hohhot | /mĩŋ⁵³/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai | /miŋ²³/ |
| Suzhou | /min⁵⁵/ | |
| Hangzhou | /min⁵³/ | |
| Wenzhou | /meŋ³⁵/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /miʌ̃³⁵/ |
| Tunxi | /min³¹/ | |
| Xiang | Changsha | /min⁴¹/ |
| Xiangtan | /min⁴²/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | /min²¹³/ |
| Hakka | Meixian | /men³¹/ |
| Taoyuan | /mien²⁴/ | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /mɐn²³/ |
| Nanning | /mɐn²⁴/ | |
| Hong Kong | /mɐn¹³/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) | /bin⁵³/ |
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /miŋ³²/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /meiŋ²¹/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /miaŋ⁵³/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) | /min²¹³/ |
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 敏 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 明 (4) |
| Final (韻) | 眞 (44) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | Chongniu III |
| Fanqie | 眉殞切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/mˠiɪnX/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/mᵚinX/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/mienX/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/mjinX/ |
| Li Rong |
/mjĕnX/ |
| Wang Li |
/mǐĕnX/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/mi̯ĕnX/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
mǐn |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 敏 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
mǐn |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ minX › |
| Old Chinese |
/*mrə[n]ʔ/ (~ *mrəʔ) |
| English | diligent, active |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Character | 敏 | 敏 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| No. | 9296 | 9297 |
| Phonetic component |
母 | 母 |
| Rime group |
之 | 蒸 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
愍 | 愍 |
| Old Chinese |
/*mrɯʔ/ | /*mrɯŋʔ/ |
Definitions
敏
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Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
敏
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Readings
Compounds
- 敏感 (binkan, “sensitivity”)
| Kanji in this term |
|---|
| 敏 |
|
びん Grade: S |
| on'yomi |
Etymology
From Middle Chinese 敏 (minX).
Pronunciation
Adjectival noun
敏 (-na inflection, hiragana びん, romaji bin)
Inflection
Inflection of "敏な"
| Stem forms | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Imperfective (未然形) | 敏だろ | びんだろ | bin daro |
| Continuative (連用形) | 敏で | びんで | bin de |
| Terminal (終止形) | 敏だ | びんだ | bin da |
| Attributive (連体形) | 敏な | びんな | bin na |
| Hypothetical (仮定形) | 敏なら | びんなら | bin nara |
| Imperative (命令形) | 敏であれ | びんであれ | bin de are |
| Key constructions | |||
| Informal negative | 敏ではない 敏じゃない |
びんではない びんじゃない |
bin de wa nai bin ja nai |
| Informal past | 敏だった | びんだった | bin datta |
| Informal negative past | 敏ではなかった 敏じゃなかった |
びんではなかった びんじゃなかった |
bin de wa nakatta bin ja nakatta |
| Formal | 敏です | びんです | bin desu |
| Formal negative | 敏ではありません 敏じゃありません |
びんではありません びんじゃありません |
bin de wa arimasen bin ja arimasen |
| Formal past | 敏でした | びんでした | bin deshita |
| Formal negative past | 敏ではありませんでした 敏じゃありませんでした |
びんではありませんでした びんじゃありませんでした |
bin de wa arimasen deshita bin ja arimasen deshita |
| Conjunctive | 敏で | びんで | bin de |
| Conditional | 敏なら（ば） | びんなら（ば） | bin nara (ba) |
| Provisional | 敏だったら | びんだったら | bin dattara |
| Volitional | 敏だろう | びんだろう | bin darō |
| Adverbial | 敏に | びんに | bin ni |
| Degree | 敏さ | びんさ | binsa |
Noun
Proper noun
敏 (hiragana さとし, romaji Satoshi)
- A male given name
References
- ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
- ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3
Korean
Hanja
敏 • (min) (hangeul 민, revised min, McCune-Reischauer min, Yale min)
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Compounds
- 민감 (敏感, min-gam, “sensitivity”)