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闽

Mǐn

Character Traditional 閩

What 闽 means

1. short name for Fujian {福建|Fú jiàn}
2. also pr. Mín

Words starting with 闽

• 闽南Mǐn nánMinnan (southern Fujian)
• 闽江Mǐn JiāngMin River, Fujian
• 闽粤Mǐn YuèFujian and Guangdong
• 闽菜Mǐn càiFujian cuisine
• 闽语Mǐn yǔMin dialects, spoken in Fujian Province, Taiwan etc
• 闽侯县Mǐn hòu XiànMinhou, a county in Fuzhou City 福州市
• 闽南话Mǐn nán huàSouthern Min, a family of Sinitic languages spoken in southern Fujian and surrounding…
• 闽南语Mǐn nán yǔSouthern Min, a Sinitic language spoken in southern Fujian and surrounding areas…
• 闽清县Mǐn qīng XiànMinqing, a county in Fuzhou City 福州市
• 闽侯Mǐn hòusee 闽侯县
• 闽清Mǐn qīngsee 闽清县

Words containing 闽

• 纳闽Nà mǐnLabuan, island territory of Malaysia off Sabah coast, north Borneo 婆罗洲
• 川鲁粤苏浙闽湘徽Chuān Lǔ Yuè Sū Zhè Mǐn Xiāng Huīthe cuisines of Sichuan, Shandong, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Hunan and Anhui…

Characters built on 虫

These share the phonetic component 虫 (chóng), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 蚓yǐnused in 蚯蚓
• 螓qínsmall cicada with a square head

Characters that look like 闽

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 阁gépavilion (usu. two-storied); cabinet (politics); boudoir
• 胸xiōngchest; bosom; heart
• 闹nàonoisy; cacophonous; to make noise
• 闺guīsmall arched door; boudoir; lady's chamber; (fig.) women
• 阂héobstruct
• 阄jiūlots (to be drawn); lot (in a game of chance)

Sounds the same

Read Mǐn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 敏(bound form) quick; nimble; agile; (bound form) quick-witted; smart
• 抿to smooth hair with a wet brush; (of a mouth, wing etc) to close lightly; to sip
• 泯(bound form) to vanish; to die out; to obliterate
• 悯to sympathize; to pity; to feel compassion for; (literary) to feel sorrow; to be grieved
• 皿(bound form) dish; vessel; shallow container; radical no. 108
• 敃strong; robust; vigorous
• 湣(ancient character used in posthumous titles of monarchs); old variant of 悯
• 刡to scrape; to pare
• 慜clever; old variant of 愍
• 鳘cod
• 黾to strive
• 忞ancient variant of 暋