mǐn
mourn
Phonosemantic compound. 文 represents the meaning and 門 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernComponent uses
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*mrə[n]ʔ | minX | mǐn | grieved |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3643rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9594 |
Shuowen | “閔，弔者在門也。从門，文聲。，古文閔。” |
Sources
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