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nationality; ethnic group / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
among the people / popular / folk / non-governmental / involving people rather than governments
HSK 3
public opinion / popular will / public will
HSK 6
civil police / PRC police / abbr. for 人民警察
HSK 6
migrant worker (who moved from a rural area of China to a city to find work) / temporary worker enlisted on a public project
HSK 6
folk song / CL: ,
HSK 6
democracy / democratic
HSK 6
(for) civilian use
HSK 7-9
popular custom
HSK 7-9
the populace; the masses; the common people
HSK 7-9
run by the local people / privately operated
HSK 7-9
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  *民* | 民* | *民
surname Min
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  *民* | 民* | *民
(bound form) the people / inhabitants of a country
civil court
democracy (as a system of government)
civil aviation
civil code
the people's livelihood is reduced to destitution (idiom); a time of famine and impoverishment
privately run (i.e. by a company, not the state)
people's militia / militia / militiaman
national hero
University for Nationalities (university of ethnic studies)
people's livelihood / people's welfare
(orthographic borrowing from Japanese 民宿 "minshuku") property rented via Airbnb or similar platform; guesthouse; bed-and-breakfast; homestay; pension
folk dance
civil law
ballad / folk song
civil case / agricultural affairs / civil
tyrant and oppressor of the people (idiom); traitorous dictator
Minfeng County in Hotan Prefecture 和田地區|和田地区, Xinjiang
circumstances of the people / popular sentiment / the mood of the people / popular customs
China Association for Promoting Democracy (abbr. for 中國民主促進會|中国民主促进会)
house / people's homes
folk music, esp. for traditional instruments
Ministry of Civil Affairs (MCA) of the PRC
civil transport / movement aimed at the masses / democracy movement (abbr.)
opinion poll
product for civilian use
Minquan county in Shangqiu 商丘, Henan
civil liberties
(idiom) the people have no way to make a living (from Records of the Grand Historian 史記|史记)
China Democratic League (political party) / abbr. for 中國民主同盟|中国民主同盟
popular customs / folkways / the character of the people of a nation (or region etc)
private house
democratically elected
opinion poll
folk saying / proverb
popular sentiment
minka / commoner's house / Bai ethnic group
public outrage
popular grievance / complaints of the people
mass uprising / popular revolt / civil commotion
the people are impoverished, their means exhausted (idiom); to drive the nation to bankruptcy
DPP (Democratic Progressive Party, Taiwan) / abbr. for 民主進步黨|民主进步党
national unity
popular tradition / folk legend
civil corps / militia
privately-operated enterprise
nationalism / national self-determination / principle of nationalism, the first of Dr Sun Yat-sen's 孫中山|孙中山 Three Principles of the People 三民主義|三民主义 (at the time, meaning parity between China and the great powers) / racism
seething discontent (idiom); popular grievances boil over
Minxiong or Minhsiung Township in Chiayi County 嘉義縣|嘉义县, west Taiwan
common plea / civil appeal (as opposed to criminal case)
folklore
folk music
ethnology / anthropology
democracy (as an ideology)
democratic centralism
civil liability (law)
folk dance
Democrat (Democratic Party member or supporter)
populism
opinion poll
civil administration
folk singer
Minqin, a county in Wuwei City 武威市, Gansu
Minquan county in Shangqiu 商丘, Henan
Minfeng County in Hotan Prefecture 和田地區|和田地区, Xinjiang
DPP (Democratic Progressive Party, Taiwan) / abbr. to 民進黨|民进党
provincial department of civil affairs
association / organization / humanitarian organization / NGO
Food is the God of the people. (idiom); People view food as the primary need. / Food first, ethical niceties second
(Hong Kong politics) the pro-democracy camp (founded 1987), aka the pan-democrats
civil explosives
to convert to democracy; democratic transformation
woman from an ordinary family
great migration of peoples
national socialism / Nazism
Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB), a pro-Beijing political party in Hong Kong
Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB), a pro-Beijing political party in Hong Kong (abbr. for 民主建港協進聯盟|民主建港协进联盟)
Bureau of Civil Affairs
nationalist feelings / nationalist sentiment
national industry / industry run by Chinese nationals or ethnic Chinese
privatization
principle of people's livelihood, the third of Dr Sun Yat-sen's 孫中山|孙中山 Three Principles of the People 三民主義|三民主义 (at the time, meaning redistribution of wealth, self-sufficiency and internal trade)
the Narodniks, Russian populist group in the 19th century
private capital
folk story / folktale
democrat

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