Chinese

Noun

農民

1. farmer; peasant

   農民起義 / 农民起义  ―  nóngmín qǐyì  ―  peasant uprising

   農民戰爭 / 农民战争  ―  nóngmín zhànzhēng  ―  peasant war

Usage notes

• Used in more formal speech in Min Nan. The more colloquial terms are 作穡人／作穑人 and 作田人.

Synonyms

• 農人／农人 (nóngrén)

Japanese

Pronunciation

• On'yomi
• (Tokyo) のうみん [nòómíń] (Heiban - [0])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [no̞ːmĩɴ]

Noun

農民 ‎(hiragana のうみん, romaji nōmin)

1. farmer
2. peasant farmer, sharecropper

Synonyms

• (farmer): 農家 (のうか) ‎(nōka)
• (peasant): 小作人 (こさくにん) ‎(kosakunin)

References

1. ↑ 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

• 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, ISBN 4095102535.

Korean

Noun

農民 • ‎(nongmin) ‎(hangeul 농민)

1. Hanja form^? of 농민, “farmers, peasantry; farmer, peasant”.

Vietnamese

Noun

農民

1. Hán tự form of nông dân, “peasant, farmer”