民 any specific group of people; citizens of somewhere; the masses, the people and not government or its officials 吡,口,比,レ,弋,尸,氏,

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MingLiU:

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民

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ミン
MI　N

Kun-yomi

たみ
ta　mi

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

吡

ヒツ,ビチ,そし blame

　ORIFICE, MOUTH and A COMPARISON, TO COMPARE
…or: ORIFICE with HANDS IN STROKING MOTIONS, HAND STROKING with SHAFTS
　

口

コウ,ク,くち orifice, mouth, cavity or passage of the body; an opening, aperture, vent

　ORIFICE
　

比

ヒ,くら comparison, to compare, to rate, to be near or close to, almost the same but with some differences, a peer, a contest or competition to decide the top choice; hand gestures, motions with hands stroking, time period and billing occurrence, in proportion to [time, ability, class level, etc.]

　two PERSONS SITTING
…or: ROD RAISED with HEAD SLIDING IN a SERVICE PROVIDER
…or: RAISED LEG with ROD of SITTING PERSON, DIVA
…or: CONCUBINE with another CONCUBINE
　

レ

× HTML entity: レ chew, masticate, bite; raised feet; mattock

　VERTICAL MOTION, ROD with HEAD UP AND IN
　

弋

⺕ク,いぐるみ wooden stake, tapered wood, driving into soil or flesh; shooting, discharge of a dart, use of an arrow or dirk, to shoot one's arrow; wild dog, undomesticated, modern Homo sapiens male; a device for snaring flying birds by attaching a long stringy net to an arrow and discharging

　marker with REPEATEDLY BOBBING TAIL, PENIS
　

尸

シ,かたしろ corpse, excretion squatting, buttocks

　MOVEMENT with ORIFICE
…or: ERECT with IN-AND-OUT
　

氏

シ,うじ,～うじ clan, surname; Mr.; lineage

　REPEATEDLY BOBBING HEAD with MULTIPLE CONCUBINES
…or: REPEATEDLY RAISING LEG with ARRAY from PEG, DOG PENIS, WOODY STAKE
…or: REPEATEDLY BOBBING with MATTOCK and ARRAY OF SPEARS
…or: RAISING LEG with DOG STAKE but REPEATEDLY without emphasis
　

Meanings of elements

ORIFICES, MOUTHS and ALMOST ALL THE SAME
…or: HEAD IN BUTTOCKS and STAKE IN SOIL but without any emphasis
…or: ORIFICE connected to CLAN
…or: ORIFICE ON RAISED LEG with ARRAY OF BENT PENIS

「Orifices, mouths」「almost all the same, working stiffs, many service providers」describes the COMMON FOLK, the MASSES, people under some human authority figures, bosses, religious clergy, royals or what have you, those who insert「soil stake repeatedly up and in buttocks.」
　Merges「buttocks」with「clan, lineage」to indicate the masses of COMMON CITIZENS who were often depicted as「corpses, stiffs, meat carcasses, buttocks, anuses, dogs」(or as a scorpion in some form or another), the「ass-ends」who did all the actual labor for food and defense, and supported the clan's genteel nobility. Elements may well also simply be a merging of「butt-ass slouch corpses with mattock and arrayed dog-like peckers」as a not entirely complimentary assessment of serf farmers, conscripted foot soldiers, and COMMON FOLK, but one that does indeed capture the flavor and essence of an aristocratic attitude at its finest.

Modern definitions (that generally disregard history) …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may list only pigeonholed definitions, euphemisms, or meaningless mnemonics)
Chinese: the people; nationality; citizen
Japanese: nation, people
Unihan extended: people, subjects, citizens
EDRDG: people; nation; subjects

Used within names (nanori)
ひと　･　み

Always keep in mind that these glyphs were originally created by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles and analogies for their own entertainment (see 籒 for that) and represented Chinese society many thousands of years ago, and not as a written or spoken language. If these glyphs had been intended for language use, the sages could not have possibly designed a worse system. Is it truly possible that all these glyphs started out as off-color jokes and puzzles? Yes! It is! Sex had no shame in ancient China. Why would it? And now, there is a cover-up. No one is suggesting these glyphs depict contemporary life in China, Japan, or anywhere else. This site describes glyph meanings, not people. These glyphs however, describe many and various things, including people, long before there were any notions of becoming politically incorrect. The question to be answered is, should these glyphs continue being used, by anyone, anywhere, for expressing language? (More...) Despite how bad the human world is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better? Or they could only have been worse?

By the way, with a limited number of the same elements used by the sages again and again to form these glyphs, you should expect to find the same explanations again and again, as tedious as that may become, and as an inherent trait of any dictionary. This site explains the dual meanings of glyphs most often ignored by other sources that provide you with only the sanctioned definition, generally.