旼 (mín): (archaic) gentle; mild and affa…

Meanings

他性情温和和蔼，大家都觉得他好相处。

Tā xìngqíng wēnhé hé'ǎi, dàjiā dōu juéde tā hǎo xiāngchǔ.

He has a mild and gentle disposition; people find him easy to get along with.

history

旼 is archaic and not used independently in modern Chinese, surviving mainly in names. The everyday word for gentle and affable is 温和 or 和蔼.

register

Archaic and literary only — encountered in classical text and personal names, not in modern speech or writing.

semantic

日 rì

sun

日 the sun on the left evokes warm, mild light — a fitting image for a gentle, warm temperament.

phonetic

文 wén

pattern; refined

文 gives the sound (drifted to mín) and lends a faint flavor of refinement. The same phonetic appears in 纹 (pattern) and 蚊 (mosquito).

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旼 mín