mǐn
destroy
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 民 represents the sound. Simplified form of 冺.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 泯
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to vanish | ||
to obliterate | ||
not totally heartless | ||
to vanish |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*mi[n] | mjin | mǐn | destroy |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4320th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 8 |
Unicode | U+6CEF |
Shuowen | 《說文新附》：“泯，滅也。从水，民聲。” |
Sources
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