mǐn

Fujian province

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
虫 meaning component

  Meaning component

chóng

  

bug, insect

门 sound component

  Sound component

mén

  

door

Evolution

闽 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
闽 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
闽 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
闽 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
闽 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

mǐn

Fujian province; a river; a tribe

() 

Mǐn

short name for Fujian province 福建[Fú​jiàn]; also pr. [Mín]

Most common words with 闽
Freq.
Word
Meaning

also pr. [Mín]

闽南

Minnan (southern Fujian)

闽江

Minjiang River (Fujian)

闽南语

Southern Min, a Sinitic language spoken in southern Fujian and surrounding areas

闽南话

Southern Min, a Sinitic language spoken in southern Fujian and surrounding areas

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3306th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Traditional

Unicode

U+95FD


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