民 people
Also: nation
- On'yomi
- ミン
- Kun'yomi
- たみ
- Strokes
- 5
- JLPT
- N4
- Taught in
- Primary school, year 4
Stroke order
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
Remember it
Take the clan name (氏) and stretch its last stroke out long — one family line spread wide across the land becomes the people of a nation.
A common word
- 国民 こくみん citizens
Example sentences
私たちは日本の国民です。
わたしたちはにほんのこくみんです。
We are citizens of Japan.
この国の民は米を作って生きてきた。
このくにのたみはこめをつくっていきてきた。
The people of this country have lived by growing rice.
Don't confuse it with
- 氏 family name N2
Kanji that share a part
氏 is its radical.