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氓

氓

Translingual

Han character

氓 (radical 83 氏+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 卜女口女心 (YVRVP), four-corner 07747, composition ⿰亡民)

  1. people
  2. subjects
  3. vassals

References

  • KangXi: page 598, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17030
  • Dae Jaweon: page 990, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2131, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+6C13

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 氓

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 氓
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (亡) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
忙 *maːŋ
芒 *maːŋ, *maŋ
茫 *maːŋ
恾 *maːŋ
吂 *maːŋ, *maːŋs
汒 *maːŋ, *maŋs
朚 *maːŋ, *hmaːŋ, *maŋ, *mraːŋ, *mraːŋs
邙 *maːŋ, *maŋ
杗 *maːŋ, *maŋ
荒 *hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋs
肓 *hmaːŋ
衁 *hmaːŋ
巟 *hmaːŋ
詤 *hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋʔ, *hmaŋʔ
慌 *hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋʔ
謊 *hmaːŋʔ
喪 *smaːŋs, *smaːŋ
亡 *maŋ
望 *maŋ, *maŋs
莣 *maŋ
朢 *maŋ, *maŋs
鋩 *maŋ
硭 *maŋ
忘 *maŋ, *maŋs
网 *mlaŋʔ
罔 *mlaŋʔ
蛧 *maŋʔ
網 *mlaŋʔ
輞 *maŋʔ
棢 *maŋʔ
惘 *maŋʔ
菵 *maŋʔ
誷 *maŋʔ
魍 *maŋʔ
妄 *maŋs
盲 *mraːŋ
蝱 *mraːŋ
虻 *mraːŋ
氓 *mraːŋ
甿 *mraːŋ

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 氓
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 耕 (117)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 莫耕切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /mˠɛŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /mᵚæŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /mɐŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /məɨjŋ/
Li
Rong		 /mɛŋ/
Wang
Li		 /mæŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /mæŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 méng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 氓
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 méng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ mɛng ›
Old
Chinese		 /*mˤr[i]ŋ/
English population, people

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 氓
Reading # 1/1
No. 12694
Phonetic
component		 亡
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 甍
Old
Chinese		 /*mraːŋ/

Definitions

氓

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Japanese

Kanji

氓

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. people, subjects

Readings

Korean

Hanja

氓 • ‎(maeng) (hangeul 맹, revised maeng, McCune-Reischauer maeng, Yale mayng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

氓 (manh)

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