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Translingual

Han character

(radical 66 +7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 人卜人大 (OYOK), four-corner 88540, composition)

  1. fast, quick, clever, smart
  2. A given name

References

  • KangXi: page 471, character 4
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 13202
  • Dae Jaweon: page 823, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1463, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+654F

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*mɯːs, *mɯː, *mɯːs
*mlɯːʔ, *mɯːʔ
*hmlɯːʔ
*ʔmɯː, *ʔmɯːʔ
*mɯ
*mɯʔ
*mɯʔ
*mɯʔ
*mɯʔ, *mɯs, *maːʔ
*mɯʔ
*mɯʔ
*mɯs, *mɯːʔ, *mɯːs
*mɯs, *mɯː, *mɯːs
*mrɯʔ, *mrɯŋʔ
*mrɯŋʔ
*mrɯŋʔ
*ma
*mɯː
*mɯː
*mɯː
*mɯːʔ
*mɯːs
*mɯːs, *hmɯːs
*hmɯːs
*hmɯːs
*hmɯːʔ, *hmɯːs
*mrɯl

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
Mandarin Beijing /min²¹⁴/
Harbin /min²¹³/
Tianjin /min¹³/
Jinan /miẽ⁵⁵/
Qingdao /miə̃⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /min⁵³/
Xi'an /miẽ⁵³/
Xining /miə̃⁵³/
Yinchuan /miŋ⁵³/
Lanzhou /mĩn⁴⁴²/
Ürümqi /miŋ⁵¹/
Wuhan /min⁴²/
Chengdu /min⁵³/
Guiyang /min⁴²/
Kunming /mĩ⁵³/
Nanjing /min²¹²/
Hefei /min²⁴/
Jin Taiyuan /miəŋ⁵³/
Pingyao /miŋ⁵³/
Hohhot /mĩŋ⁵³/
Wu Shanghai /miŋ²³/
Suzhou /min⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /min⁵³/
Wenzhou /meŋ³⁵/
Hui Shexian /miʌ̃³⁵/
Tunxi /min³¹/
Xiang Changsha /min⁴¹/
Xiangtan /min⁴²/
Gan Nanchang /min²¹³/
Hakka Meixian /men³¹/
Taoyuan /mien²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /mɐn²³/
Nanning /mɐn²⁴/
Hong Kong /mɐn¹³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /bin⁵³/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /miŋ³²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /meiŋ²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /miaŋ⁵³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /min²¹³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (4)
Final () (44)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () Chongniu III
Fanqie
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
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
mǐn
Middle
Chinese
‹ minX ›
Old
Chinese
/*mrə[n]ʔ/ (~ *mrəʔ)
English diligent, active

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. 9296 9297
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*mrɯʔ/ /*mrɯŋʔ/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 不敏 (bùmǐn)
  • 伶俐聰敏伶俐聪敏
  • 俊敏
  • 光敏作用
  • 光敏症
  • 勤敏
  • 士敏土
  • 心閑手敏
  • 恪敏
  • 才思敏捷
  • 敏感 (mǐngǎn)
  • 敏感度
  • 敏感話題敏感话题
  • 敏慧
  • 敏捷 (mǐnjié)
  • 敏於伎敏于伎
  • 敏給敏给
  • 敏練慈愷敏练慈恺
  • 敏豆 (mǐndòu)
  • 敏贍敏赡
  • 敏銳敏锐 (mǐnruì)
  • 敬謝不敏敬谢不敏
  • 機敏机敏 (jīmǐn)
  • 熱敏性热敏性
  • 熱敏電阻热敏电阻
  • 神經過敏神经过敏 (shénjīng guòmǐn)
  • 穎敏颖敏
  • 精敏
  • 聰敏聪敏 (cōngmǐn)
  • 膚敏肤敏
  • 西敏宮西敏宫
  • 西敏寺
  • 辨敏
  • 過敏过敏 (guòmǐn)
  • 過敏原过敏原
  • 遜志時敏逊志时敏
  • 銳敏锐敏
  • 開敏开敏
  • 靈敏灵敏 (língmǐn)
  • 靈敏度灵敏度

Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Kanji in this term
びん
Grade: S
on'yomi

Etymology

From Middle Chinese (minX).

Pronunciation

Adjectival noun

(-na inflection, hiragana びん, romaji bin)

  1. quick, sharp

Inflection

Noun

(hiragana びん, romaji bin)

  1. quickness, sharpness

Proper noun

(hiragana さとし, romaji Satoshi)

  1. A male given name

References

  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

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

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Compounds


Vietnamese

Han character

(mẫn, mắn, mẩn)

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Compounds