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Meaning of 民
Pinyin
mín
Radical
乛
Strokes
5
Definition
the people / nationality / citizen
Usage
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民 [mín]
名词 (Noun)
1. 以劳动群众为主体的社会基本成员。
- Basic members of society, mainly composed of the working masses.
2. 指人或人群。
- Refers to people or groups of people.
3. 劳动大众的，非官方的。
- Pertaining to the working masses; unofficial.
4. 某族的人。
- People of a certain ethnic group.
5. 从事不同职业的人。
- Individuals engaged in various professions.
6. 非军事的。
- Non-military.
7. 同“苠”。
- Same as "苠".
用法 (Usage)
- 人民 (the people); 国家 (the state); 民主 (democracy); 公民 (citizen); 国家公民 (national citizen).
形容词 (Adjective)
- 民间的:
- Folk; among the people.
引文 (Quotations)
1. 《说文》：民，众萌也。从古文之象。
- “民” refers to the common people, as represented in ancient texts.
2. 《左传》：民，神之主也。
- "The masses are the masters of the spirits."
3. 《论语》：民可使由之，不可使知之。
- "The people can be guided, but they should not be encumbered with knowledge."
例子 (Examples)
- 民谣 (folk songs); 民营 (privately operated); 民语 (dialect spoken among the people).
people's organization (e.g. labor unions, peasant associations, scholarly associations etc) / mass organization
nationalism / national self-determination / principle of nationalism, the first of Dr Sun Yat-sen's 孫中山|孙中山 Three Principles of the People 三民主義|三民主义 (at the time, meaning parity between China and the great powers) / racism
The people have no way to make a living (idiom, from Record of the Grand Historian 史記|史记[Shi3 ji4]) / no way of getting by
lit. the fat and wealth of the people (idiom); the nation's hard-won wealth (esp. as an object of unscrupulous exploitation) / the people's blood, sweat and tears
a government official drives the people to revolt (idiom); a minister provokes a rebellion by exploiting the people
Same Pronunciation Characters
Same Radical Characters
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Input Method for 民
Pinyin
min2
Wubi
nav
Cangjie
rvp
Zhengma
yybh
Four Corner
77747
Unicode
U+6c11
Stroke Number Category
HSK Level Category