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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 85 +5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 水口女心 (ERVP), four-corner 37147)

  1. destroy, eliminate
  2. perish

References

  • KangXi: page 618, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17324
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1013, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1596, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+6CEF

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*miːn
*min
*min, *minʔ
*min, *mɯːn
*mrin
*mrin
*mrin
*mrin, *minʔ
*mrin
*mrɯn, *mrɯn, *mrɯnʔ
*minʔ
*mrinʔ
*mrinʔ
*mrinʔ
*mɯn

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (4) (4)
Final () (43) (43)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/miɪn/ /miɪnX/
Pan
Wuyun
/min/ /minX/
Shao
Rongfen
/mjen/ /mjenX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/min/ /minX/
Li
Rong
/miĕn/ /miĕnX/
Wang
Li
/mĭĕn/ /mĭĕnX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/mi̯ĕn/ /mi̯ĕnX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
mín mǐn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
mǐn
Middle
Chinese
‹ mjin ›
Old
Chinese
/*mi[n]/
English destroy

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
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 9131 9139
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*min/ /*minʔ/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 不泯
  • 丹誠不泯丹诚不泯
  • 沒齒難泯没齿难泯
  • 泯沒泯没
  • 泯泯
  • 泯滅泯灭 (mǐnmiè)
  • 泯然
  • 泯然無跡泯然无迹
  • 泯然無際泯然无际
  • 泯絕泯绝
  • 泯耳攢蹄泯耳攒蹄
  • 泯跡泯迹
  • 盛德不泯
  • 童心未泯
  • 至死不泯
  • 良心未泯

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(min) (hangeul , revised min, McCune-Reischauer min, Yale min)

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