民 — people, nation, subjects

みん民 people

Grade 4 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 5 strokes people

U+6C11 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #28 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1976 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

people
nation
subjects

word

みん min On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

民(みん) min people 国(こく) 民(みん) kokumin citizen 市(し) 民(みん) shimin citizen 住(じゅう) 民(みん) juumin resident 民(みん) 間(かん) minkan private sector 民(みん) 族(ぞく) minzoku ethnic group 民(みん) 主(しゅ) minshu democracy 農(のう) 民(みん) noumin farmer

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

し氏 family name #83

Used as component in (1)

ねむる眠 sleep

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#83 氏 clan