民 (man4 | min2) : the people; civilian

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民

man4

min2

[1] the people; the public; the populace
[2] civilian; non-government; non-military
[3] person of a certain type or occupation

Stroke count: 5

Level: 1

Radical: 氏 (#83)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

民

Don't confuse with:
氏

This word has been viewed 14510 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 3rd Jan 2015 03:32

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人民 jan4 man4 ren2 min2 = the people, populace

民主 man4 zyu2 min2 zhu3 = democracy

民族 man4 zuk6 min2 zu2 = ethnic group; nationality

國民 gwok3 man4 guo2 min2 = citizen; national

民國 man4 gwok3 = republic

全民 cyun4 man4 quan2 min2 = everyone; every man, woman and child; every citizen of the country

平民 ping4 man4 ping2 min2 = ordinary person

國民收入 gwok3 man4 sau1 jap6 guo2 min2 shou1 ru4 = national income

國民教育 gwok3 man4 gaau3 juk6 guo2 min2 jiao4 yu4 = national education

全民退保 cyun4 man4 teoi3 bou2 quan2 min2 tui4 bao3 = universal retirement protection
See all 230 compounds (CantoDict reports 270 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

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「全民皆股」係香港嘅特色。粵
Everyone buying stocks is a characteristic of Hong Kong

中華人民共和國萬歲，萬萬歲！
Long live the People's Republic of China!

真係住得背，而家先知佢移民咗！粵
I am really not well informed. It is now that I learn he has migrated.

好在重有公民黨粵
Thank goodness, we still have the Civic Party.

好彩重有公民黨粵
Thank goodness, we still have the Civic Party.

幸好還有公民黨國
Thank goodness, we still have the Civic Party.

今日所講嘅係國民教育。粵
What I'm going to talk today is national education.
[所 is used before the first verb 講 to form the first noun phrase 今日所講嘅, indicating that the second noun phrase (國民教育) must be a 'topic'. If 所 is omitted, the second noun phrase could either be a 'topic' or a 'speaker'. ]

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Decimal representation of this word: 民
Unicode code for this character: U+6c11 (off-site link)

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