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憫

憫

See also: 悯

Translingual

Han character

憫 (radical 61 心+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 心日弓大 (PANK), four-corner 97020, composition ⿰忄閔)

  1. pity, sympathize with, grieve for

References

  • KangXi: page 403, character 32
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11252
  • Dae Jaweon: page 744, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2357, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+61AB

Chinese

trad. 憫
simp. 悯

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (閔) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
憫 *mrɯnʔ
閔 *mrɯnʔ
潣 *mrɯnʔ, *mɯːlʔ
簢 *mrɯnʔ
燘 *mɯːlʔ, *hmɯːlʔ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 憫
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 憫
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 mǐn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ minX ›
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 憫
Reading # 1/1
No. 9153
Phonetic
component		 閔
Rime
group		 文
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 愍
Old
Chinese		 /*mrɯnʔ/

Definitions

憫

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Compounds

  • 其情可憫／其情可悯
  • 垂憫／垂悯
  • 悲天憫人／悲天悯人
  • 悲憫／悲悯
  • 慈憫／慈悯
  • 憐憫／怜悯 (liánmǐn)
  • 憫恤／悯恤
  • 憫惻／悯恻
  • 憫然／悯然
  • 矜憫／矜悯

Japanese

Kanji

憫

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

憫 • ‎(min) (hangeul 민, revised min, McCune-Reischauer min, Yale min)

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Vietnamese

Han character

憫 (mẫn)

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