mǐn

pity

Components
敃 sound component

  Sound component

mǐn

  

strong

心 meaning component

  Meaning component

xīn

  

heart

heart

Evolution

愍 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
愍 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
愍 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
愍 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

mǐn

pity, sympathize with; variant of |[mǐn]

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5465th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+610D

Shuowen

“愍,痛也。从心,敃聲。”


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