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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
democracy / democratic
HSK 6
public opinion / popular will / public will
HSK 6
folk song / CL: ,
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
run by the local people / privately operated
HSK 7-9
the populace; the masses; the common people
HSK 7-9
(for) civilian use
HSK 7-9
popular custom
HSK 7-9
Republic of China (1912-1949) / used in Taiwan as the name of the calendar era (e.g. 民國六十年|民国六十年 is 1971, the 60th year after 1911)
people's livelihood / people's welfare
people's militia / militia / militiaman
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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 law
civil corps / militia
(orthographic borrowing from Japanese 民宿 "minshuku") property rented via Airbnb or similar platform; guesthouse; bed-and-breakfast; homestay; pension
Minfeng County in Hotan Prefecture 和田地區|和田地区, Xinjiang
DPP (Democratic Progressive Party, Taiwan) / abbr. for 民主進步黨|民主进步党
common plea / civil appeal (as opposed to criminal case)
national industry / industry run by Chinese nationals or ethnic Chinese
Minquan county in Shangqiu 商丘, Henan
civil liberties
civil administration
opinion poll
folk dance
privately run (i.e. by a company, not the state)
ballad / folk song
civil aviation
China Association for Promoting Democracy (abbr. for 中國民主促進會|中国民主促进会)
folklore
democracy (as an ideology)
folk story / folktale
popular customs / folkways / the character of the people of a nation (or region etc)
democracy (as a system of government)
to convert to democracy; democratic transformation
popular grievance / complaints of the people
civil liability (law)
national hero
mass uprising / popular revolt / civil commotion
seething discontent (idiom); popular grievances boil over
privately-operated enterprise
folk saying / proverb
self-determination
Food is the God of the people. (idiom); People view food as the primary need. / Food first, ethical niceties second
popular tradition / folk legend
populism
opinion poll
popular sentiment
public outrage
Ministry of Civil Affairs (MCA) of the PRC
folk art
ethnology / anthropology
(idiom) the people have no way to make a living (from Records of the Grand Historian 史記|史记)
circumstances of the people / popular sentiment / the mood of the people / popular customs
Democracy Wall, Beijing (1978-1979), and bulletin boards inspired by it, in some Hong Kong universities
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)
houses / homes
Minfeng County in Hotan Prefecture 和田地區|和田地区, Xinjiang
democracy / civil liberties / principle of democracy, the second 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 widespread popular involvement in affairs of state)
Minqin county in Wuwei 武威, Gansu
democratically elected
Minyue county in Zhangye 張掖|张掖, Gansu
private house
minka / commoner's house / Bai ethnic group
lit. the fat and wealth of the people (idiom); the nation's hard-won wealth (esp. as an object of unscrupulous exploitation) / the people's blood, sweat and tears
China Democratic League (political party) / abbr. for 中國民主同盟|中国民主同盟
Minquan county in Shangqiu 商丘, Henan
Minqin county in Wuwei 武威, Gansu
tyrant and oppressor of the people (idiom); traitorous dictator
opinion poll
civil case / agricultural affairs / civil
Minxiong or Minhsiung Township in Chiayi County 嘉義縣|嘉义县, west Taiwan
Minxiong or Minhsiung Township in Chiayi County 嘉義縣|嘉义县, west Taiwan
DPP (Democratic Progressive Party, Taiwan) / abbr. to 民進黨|民进党
civil court
equality of ethnic groups
private capital
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)
woman from an ordinary family
Democratic Party
Mindanao Sea
civil code
Bureau of Civil Affairs
folk singer
democratic centralism
folk music
folk dance
folk customs
(Hong Kong politics) the pro-democracy camp (founded 1987), aka the pan-democrats
national unity
democrat
Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB), a pro-Beijing political party in Hong Kong
democratic revolution / bourgeois revolution (in Marx-Leninist theory, a prelude to the proletarian revolution)
great migration of peoples
privatization
the Narodniks, Russian populist group in the 19th century
association / organization / humanitarian organization / NGO

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