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閩

閩

See also: 闽

Translingual

Han character

閩 (radical 169 門+6, 14 strokes, cangjie input 日弓中一戈 (ANLMI), four-corner 77136, composition ⿵門虫)

  1. The Fujian province of China
  2. a river
  3. a tribe

References

  • KangXi: page 1335, character 7
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41315
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1841, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4295, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+95A9

Chinese

trad. 閩
simp. 闽

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (門) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
蔄 *roːs, *mruːns
闅 *min, *mrɯn, *mɯn
閩 *mrɯn, *mɯn
蕄 *mɯːŋ, *mrɯːŋ
門 *mɯːn
捫 *mɯːn
悶 *mɯːns
聞 *mɯn, *mɯns
閿 *mɯn
問 *mɯns

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 閩 閩
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 明 (4) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 眞 (44) 文 (59)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Closed
Division (等) Chongniu III III
Fanqie 武巾切 無分切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /mˠiɪn/ /mɨun/
Pan
Wuyun		 /mᵚin/ /miun/
Shao
Rongfen		 /mien/ /miuən/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /mjin/ /mun/
Li
Rong		 /mjĕn/ /miuən/
Wang
Li		 /mǐĕn/ /mĭuən/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /mi̯ĕn/ /mi̯uən/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 mín wén
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 閩
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 mǐn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ min ›
Old
Chinese		 /*mrə[n]/
English southern tribes

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 閩 閩
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 8956 8966
Phonetic
component		 門 門
Rime
group		 文 文
Rime
subdivision		 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 珉 文
Old
Chinese		 /*mrɯn/ /*mɯn/

Definitions

閩

  1. Fujian
  2. Min people (ancient ethnic group)
  3. Min River, Fujian
  4. Min languages

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

閩

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

閩 (mân)

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