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English definition fast, quick, clever, smart
Mandarin pronunciation(s), using the Hanyu Pinyin romanization system min3
Pronunciation(s) and frequencies according to 現代漢語頻率詞典 <Xiandai Hanyu Pinlu Cidian> (XDHYPLCD) mǐn(60)
Cantonese pronunciation(s), using the Jyutping romanization system man5
Cantonese pronunciation(s), using the Yale romanization system man5
Japanese (Kana) ビン ビ さとい とし
Japanese (Hepburn) toshi satoi
Sino-Japanese bin min
Korean pronunciation(s), using the Yale romanization system min
Hangul 민:0E
Vietnamese pronunciation(s) in Quốc ngữ mẫn
Semantic variants (x- or y-variants with similar or identical meaning)
Unicode radical / stroke count 攴攵 + 7
Unicode total stroke count 11
Cangjie OYOK
Four corner code 8854.0
Expected to be known in Hong Kong school system primary grade 4
漢語大字典 <Hanyu Da Zidian> 'Great Chinese Character Dictionary' (in 8 Volumes). Hubei and Sichuan Dictionary Publishing Collectives, 1986-1990. ISBN: 7-5403-0030 2/H.16 volume 2, page 1463, character 1
KangXi dictionary, 7th edition published by Zhonghua Bookstore in Beijing, 1989 page 471, position 4
Dae Jaweon (Korean) dictionary, first edition, published in Seoul by Samseong Publishing Co., Ltd., 1988 page 823, position 5
Grammata Serica Recensa, Bernhard Karlgren, 1957 1251q
Cihai (辭海) dictionary, single volume edition, published in Hong Kong by the Zhonghua Bookstore, 1983 (reprint of the 1947 edition), ISBN 962-231-005-2 page 604, row 2, position 1
宋本廣韻 <Song Ben Guang Yun> Song Dynasty edition of the Guang Yun Rhyming Dictionary page 276, character 50
This represents the position(s) of the ideograph in the Soengmou San Zidin (商務新字典, New Commercial Press Character Dictionary) page 276, character 12
The Five Thousand Dictionary (Fenn's Chinese-English Pocket Dictionary) by Courtenay H. Fenn, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979 573E
page 343, position 7
Ten Thousand Characters: An Analytic Dictionary by G. Hugh Casey, S.J. Hong Kong: Kelley and Walsh, 1980 880 927
Chinese-English Dictionary by Robert H. Mathews, Cambrige: Harvard University Press, 1975 4517
A Practical Cantonese-English Dictionary by Sidney Lau, Hong Kong: The Government Printer, 1977 2095
Roy T. Cowles, A Pocket Dictionary of Cantonese, Hong Kong: University Press, 1999 2626
Student's Cantonese-English Dictionary by Bernard F. Meyer and Theodore F. Wempe (3rd edition, 1947) 1784b
常用字字形表 (二零零零年修訂本),香港: 香港教育學院, 2000, ISBN 962-949-040-4 1714
The Modern Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary by Andrew Nathaniel Nelson, Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1974 2047 2049
PRC telegraph code 2404
Taiwan telegraph code 2404
Unicode code point (dec / hex): 25935 / 654F


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