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泯

泯 U+6CEF, 泯
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6CEF
← 泮
[U+6CEE] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 泰 →
[U+6CF0]

Translingual

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Han character

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泯 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 水口女心 (ERVP), four-corner 37147, composition ⿰氵民)

  1. destroy, eliminate
  2. perish

Derived characters

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 618, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17324
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1013, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1596, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+6CEF

Chinese

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simp. and trad.
 泯
alternative forms 冺

Glyph origin

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Characters in the same phonetic series (民) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
眠 *miːn
民 *min
泯 *min, *minʔ
怋 *min, *mɯːn
岷 *mrin
珉 *mrin
罠 *mrin
笢 *mrin, *minʔ
鈱 *mrin
抿 *mrɯn, *mrɯn, *mrɯnʔ
刡 *minʔ
敃 *mrinʔ
愍 *mrinʔ
暋 *mrinʔ
蟁 *mɯn

Etymology

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Pronunciation

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Rime
Character 泯 泯
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 明 (4) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 眞 (43) 眞 (43)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 彌鄰切 武盡切
Baxter mjin mjinX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/miɪn/ /miɪnX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/min/ /minX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/mjen/ /mjenX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/min/ /minX/
Li
Rong 		/miĕn/ /miĕnX/
Wang
Li 		/mĭĕn/ /mĭĕnX/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/mi̯ĕn/ /mi̯ĕnX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		mín mǐn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		man4 man5
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 泯
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		mǐn
Middle
Chinese 		‹ mjin ›
Old
Chinese 		/*mi[n]/
English destroy

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 泯 泯
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 9131 9139
Phonetic
component 		民 民
Rime
group 		眞 眞
Rime
subdivision 		1 1
Corresponding
MC rime 		民 泯
Old
Chinese 		/*min/ /*minʔ/

Definitions

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泯

  1. to destroy; to obliterate; to extinguish; to vanish

Compounds

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Japanese

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Kanji

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泯

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

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  • Go-on: みん (min)、めん (men)
  • Kan-on: びん (bin)、べん (ben)
  • Kun: ほろびる (horobiru, 泯びる)

Korean

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Hanja

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泯 (eum 민 (min))

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Vietnamese

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Han character

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泯: Hán Nôm readings: mẫn

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