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民
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Definitions
- 1. (bound form) the people
- 2. inhabitants of a country
Example Sentences
1 shown為 民 謀利者,不謀 民 之利。
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Words Containing 民
private capital
a notice to reassure the public
subject (of a kingdom, ruler etc)
Li Shimin, personal name of second Tang emperor Taizong 唐太宗[táng tài zōng] (599-649), reigned 626-649
Minxiong or Minhsiung Township in Chiayi County 嘉義縣|嘉义县[jiā yì xiàn], west Taiwan
the Yellow Turbans Peasant Uprising at the end of later Han (from 184)
civil transport
investment immigration
Liberal Democratic Party (Japanese political party)
merchant
Serve the People!, CCP political slogan
People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF)
civil police
a street to the south of the Forbidden City that was the Legation quarter during the Boxer uprising
Lin Hwai-Min (1947-), Taiwanese choreographer and dancer
forebears
(vulgar) derogatory name (in which 日[rì] means 肏[cào]) for the \People's Daily\ 人民日報|人民日报[rén mín rì bào]
civil obligation
Bharatiya Janata Party
people living on the frontiers
China Association for Promoting Democracy
online version of the People's Daily, 人民日報|人民日报[rén mín rì bào]
democratically elected
People's Bank of China
tyrant and oppressor of the people (idiom); traitorous dictator
populism
Palestinian National Authority
Mindanao Sea
the Chinese nation
voter
ordinary people
referendum
national socialism
to bring the entire nation to arms (idiom)
(slang) shitizen
colony
peasant revolt
lit. the fat and wealth of the people (idiom); the nation's hard-won wealth (esp. as an object of unscrupulous exploitation)
to immigrate
national unity
herdsman
to rob the state and hurt the people (idiom)
in touch with the people
Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC)
neocolonialism
user-friendly; convenient (for customers, citizens etc)
the Chinese People's Volunteer Army deployed by China to aid North Korea in 1950
Renminbi (RMB)
democratic revolution
people of all ethnic groups; the peoples (of a nation)
Raymond YIP Wai-Man, Hong Kong film director (debut as director: 1994)
civilian plane
good people
among the people
social stratum below the level of ordinary people
the populace; the masses; the common people
common plea
resident; inhabitant
People's Republic of Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan)
neocolonialization
refugee camp
International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
Food is the God of the people. (idiom); People view food as the primary need.
privately run (i.e. by a company, not the state)
Xinmin, county-level city in Shenyang 瀋陽|沈阳, Liaoning
seething discontent (idiom); popular grievances boil over
seething discontent (idiom); popular grievances boil over
provincial department of civil affairs
Minyue county in Zhangye 張掖|张掖[zhāng yè], Gansu
Fumin county in Kunming 昆明[kūn míng], Yunnan
Minquan county in Shangqiu 商丘[shāng qiū], Henan
Dr Sun Yat-sen's 孫中山|孙中山 Three Principles of the People (late 1890s)
if an official does not put the people first, he might as well go home and sell sweet potatoes
Republic of China (1912-1949)
General English Proficiency Test (GEPT), commissioned by Taiwan's Ministry of Education in 1999
Yumin county or Chaghantoqay nahiyisi in Tacheng prefecture 塔城地區|塔城地区[tǎ chéng dì qū], Xinjiang
bed-and-breakfast
(for) civilian use
folk art
Huimin county in Binzhou 濱州|滨州[bīn zhōu], Shandong
Northern Nationalities University NNU at Yingchuan, Ningxia (former Northwestern Second College for Nationalities)
Myanmar or Burma National league for democracy (NLD)
national hero
(slang) shitizen
popular front
Democratic Party
Republic of China
web user
vagrant
People's Republic of China
popular customs
People First Party, Taiwan
Minhe Hui and Tu autonomous county in Haidong prefecture 海東地區|海东地区[hǎi dōng dì qū], Qinghai
people
waste of manpower and resources
Minfeng County in Hotan Prefecture 和田地區|和田地区[hé tián dì qū], Xinjiang
multiethnic
Assemblée nationale (French lower chamber)
nationalism
the police and the community
popular grievance
people's democratic dictatorship
the people
apartment building
(Maoism) New Democracy (aka New Democratic Revolution)
Renmin University of China
mixed ethnic area
democracy
pan-Democratic alliance (Hong Kong)
democratic centralism
Justice Michael Hartmann (1944-), Hong Kong High Court judge
nationality; ethnic group
to damage the people and harm the country (idiom)
China Democratic National Construction Association
people who live and make a living on boats
to console the people by punishing the tyrants (idiom)
China Democratic League
Aimin district of Mudanjiang city 牡丹江市, Heilongjiang
people
opinion poll
folk music
On New Democracy (1940), by Mao Zedong
People's Square, Shanghai
Minhe Hui and Tu autonomous county in Haidong prefecture 海東地區|海东地区[hǎi dōng dì qū], Qinghai
Ministry of Civil Affairs (MCA) of the PRC
(idiom) poor people; those who live from hand to mouth
Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN)
all the people
civil code
the American people
African National Congress, ANC
to harm people and damage property (idiom)
Hui ethnic group (Chinese muslims)
see 蜑家[dàn jiā]
woman from an ordinary family
postcolonial
Christian democratic party
voter participation rate
independent voter
to benefit both the country and the people
love to all creatures (idiom, from Mencius); universal benevolence
permanent resident
mandatory college exam for immigrants
peasant class (esp. in Marxist theory); peasantry
Sanmin district of Kaohsiung city 高雄市[gāo xióng shì], south Taiwan
refugee
working people
Monument to the People's Heroes, at Tiananmen Square
(of government policy, noise pollution, crime etc) to make people's lives difficult
victim (of a disaster)
renminbi yuan (RMB), PRC currency unit
migrant worker
popular custom
veteran
tyrant and oppressor of the people (idiom); traitorous dictator
equality of ethnic groups
folk singer
(Chinese) National People's Congress
minka
Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB), a pro-Beijing political party in Hong Kong
the enemy of the people
bourgeois revolution (in Marx-Leninist theory, a prelude to the proletarian revolution)
Christian Democratic Union (German political party)
ethnic township (formal village level subdivision of PRC county)
the country weakened and the people empoverished (idiom)
ballad
civil society
to benefit thousands of people
Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
People's Bank of China
colonialism
people's livelihood
privatization
residential area
fisherman
Republic of Korea (South Korea)
villager
civil administration
people's war, military strategy advocated by Mao whereby a large number of ordinary citizens provide support in a campaign
seething discontent (idiom); widespread popular grievances
good citizens
opinion poll
great migration of peoples
People's Democratic Republic of Korea (North Korea)
Minqin county in Wuwei 武威[wǔ wēi], Gansu
folk song
ordinary people
DPP (Democratic Progressive Party, Taiwan)
civil court
civil society (law)
Peasant Party (Republic of China)
mass uprising
The people have no way to make a living (idiom, from Record of the Grand Historian 史記|史记[shǐ jì])
PRC Supreme People's Procuratorate (prosecutor's office)
Yumin county or Chaghantoqay nahiyisi in Tacheng prefecture 塔城地區|塔城地区[tǎ chéng dì qū], Xinjiang
Nationalist government 1920s-1949 under Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石|蒋介石
folk customs
civil aviation
On the correct handling of internal contradictions among the people, Mao Zedong's tract of 1957
a local person
pseudoscientist
grassroots netizens
people's militia
democracy
DPP (Democratic Progressive Party, Taiwan)
lit. to rescue the people from hanging upside down (idiom, from Mencius); to save the people from dire straits
expatriates
folk saying
University for Nationalities (university of ethnic studies)
migrant
international humanitarian organization
Zhou Yumin or Vic Zhou (1981-), Taiwan singer and actor, member of pop group F4
immigration office
Liberal Democratic Party
civil liability (law)
Huimin District of Hohhot city 呼和浩特市[hū hé hào tè shì], Inner Mongolia
(lit.) leftover men
entire population (of a country)
Chinese People's Armed Police Force (PAP, aka CAPF)
folk dance
Wang Yongmin (1943-), inventor of the five stroke input method 五筆輸入法|五笔输入法[wǔ bǐ shū rù fǎ]
Sanmin district of Kaohsiung city 高雄市[gāo xióng shì], south Taiwan
circumstances of the people
democracy
self-determination
fund investor
Democratic Republic of Congo
ordinary people
immigration
refugee
villager
Guomindang or Kuomintang (KMT)
the people's livelihood is reduced to destitution (idiom); a time of famine and impoverishment
civil police
people's commune
rehabilitation of displaced persons
social democracy
the Great Hall of the People (in Beijing)
national industry
People's party (of various countries)
Minyue county in Zhangye 張掖|张掖[zhāng yè], Gansu
multiethnic state
Xinmin Evening News
Aimin district of Mudanjiang city 牡丹江市, Heilongjiang
to damage the country and cause suffering to the people (idiom)
Korean text HunMin JongUm promulgated by Sejong Daewang in 1418 to introduce hangeul
Democratic faction
Xinmin, county-level city in Shenyang 瀋陽|沈阳, Liaoning
Social Democratic party
popular tradition
New Democracy Party of China, a short-lived party founded in 2007 by human rights activist Guo Quan, who was jailed in 2009
civil rights
army-civilian
Dramatized history of Republican China until 1927 by Cai Dongfan 蔡東藩|蔡东藩, and later chapters by Xu Qinfu 許廑父|许廑父
city resident
a government official drives the people to revolt (idiom); a minister provokes a rebellion by exploiting the people
Central University for Nationalities
Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
to damage the country and cause suffering to the people (idiom)
Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy, Hong Kong
nationalist feelings
semicolonial
civil corps
house
Fumin county in Kunming 昆明[kūn míng], Yunnan
gross national product (GNP)
democrats
Supreme People's Court (PRC)
adherent to a religion
lottery player
Minqin county in Wuwei 武威[wǔ wēi], Gansu
folklore
democracy
National Tree Planting Day (March 12th), as known as Arbor Day 植樹節|植树节[zhí shù jié]
civil explosives
Minxiong or Minhsiung Township in Chiayi County 嘉義縣|嘉义县[jiā yì xiàn], west Taiwan
for the convenience and benefit of the people (idiom)
the country prospers, the people at peace (idiom); peace and prosperity
Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
National Guard (United States)
People's Liberation Army
smokers
unemployed person
consumer price index CPI
civil rights
Han ethnic group
islander
nationals
ethnology
the common people
poor people
Democrat (Democratic Party member or supporter)
nationalist forces
Democracy Wall (1978-1989), esp. during the Beijing Spring democracy movement
original inhabitant
stock investor
ignorant masses
People's Republic of Mongolia (from 1924)
to damage the people and harm the country (idiom)
popular uprising
second-class citizen
folk dance
measures of national income and output
\the four classes\ of ancient China, i.e. scholars, farmers, artisans, and merchants
digital nomad
Social Democratic Party
collectivization of agriculture (disastrous policy of communist Russia around 1930 and China in the 1950s)
National Revolutionary Army
the late Qing and early Republic, i.e. China around 1911
houses
internal contradiction among the people (pretext for a purge)
Austronesian
People's alliance party
folk story
folk dance
national economy
Minfeng County in Hotan Prefecture 和田地區|和田地区[hé tián dì qū], Xinjiang
civil nuclear power
social democracy
referendum
recluse
semifeudal and semicolonial (the official Marxist description of China in the late Qing and under the Guomindang)
citizen
peasant
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)
people's court (of law)
privately-operated enterprise
deputy to the People's Congress
voter registration
unruly people
Essential skill to benefit the people, sixth century encyclopedia of agricultural knowledge by Jia Sixie 賈思勰|贾思勰[jiǎ sī xié]
New Democracy
migrant worker (who moved from a rural area of China to a city to find work)
a scoundrel
migrant worker (who moved from a rural area of China to a city to find work)
national minority
Bureau of Civil Affairs
slum area
civil law
docile subject (of new dynasty)
rebels
private house
Book of Numbers
ordinary people
the grass roots
ethnography
residential area
Revolutionary Committee of the Kuomintang
popular sentiment
indigenous peoples
People's Action Party (ruling party in Singapore)
a mob of people
demotion to commoner (idiom)
to win the hearts of the people
fundamental civil rights
Taiwan Democratic Self-Government League
colony
Minhe Hui and Tu autonomous county in Haidong prefecture 海東地區|海东地区[hǎi dōng dì qū], Qinghai
interests of the people
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)
Jiang Zemin (1926-2022), politician, president of PRC 1993-2003
civil case
referendum
to convert to democracy; democratic transformation
to make the country rich and the people at peace
German Democratic Republic (East Germany), 1945-1990
association
CPPCC (Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference)
Democratic Republic of Vietnam (aka North Vietnam), a country in Southeast Asia 1945-1976
slum housing
People's Daily (PRC newspaper)
opinion poll
Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC)
the multitude of common people (in highbrow literature)
public opinion
colonizer
the people are impoverished, their means exhausted (idiom); to drive the nation to bankruptcy
Sandinista National Liberation Front
Chien-Ming Wang (1980-), Taiwanese starting pitcher for the Washington Nationals in Major League Baseball
people's organization (e.g. labor unions, peasant associations, scholarly associations etc)
people's government
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
the Narodniks, Russian populist group in the 19th century
China Democratic League (political party)
to love the common people as one's own children (praise for a virtuous ruler)
Minquan county in Shangqiu 商丘[shāng qiū], Henan
plebiscite
Huimin county in Binzhou 濱州|滨州[bīn zhōu], Shandong
Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA)
Lü Jiamin (1946-) aka Jiang Rong 姜戎[jiāng róng], Chinese writer
run by the local people