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民间

mín jiān

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 民間

民间 (mín jiān) means "among the people". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 民间 means

1. among the people
2. popular
3. folk
4. non-governmental
5. involving people rather than governments

The characters in 民间

• 民mín(bound form) the people; inhabitants of a country
• 间jiānbetween; among; within a definite time or space

Example sentences

• 民间运动表达了民间的不满。
  Popular movements express popular displeasure.

Words starting with 民间

• 民间故事mín jiān gù shifolk story; folktale
• 民间艺术mín jiān yì shùfolk art
• 民间组织mín jiān zǔ zhīassociation; organization; humanitarian organization
• 民间传说mín jiān chuán shuōpopular tradition; folk legend
• 民间音乐mín jiān yīn yuèfolk music
• 民间舞mín jiān wǔfolk dance
• 民间习俗mín jiān xí súfolk customs
• 民间舞蹈mín jiān wǔ dǎofolk dance

Words containing 民间

• 国际民间组织guó jì mín jiān zǔ zhīinternational humanitarian organization

Where 民间 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · miǎn–mín (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read mín jiān correctly.
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