máng, méng
people
Phonosemantic compound. 民 represents the meaning and 亡 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*mˤr[i]ŋ | meang | méng | population, people |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 5.8305% of movies
2215th most common character in movies
3060th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+6C13 |
Shuowen | “氓，民也。从民，亡聲。讀若盲。” |
Sources
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