mín
stone resembling jade
Phonosemantic compound. 王 represents the meaning and 民 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*mr[ə][n] | min | mín | a kind of precious stone |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
6400th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+73C9 |
Shuowen | “珉，石之美者。从玉，民聲。” |
Sources
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