mín
noun #35,207

Meanings

  1. 1 jade-like stone
  2. 2 veins in jade (alternate reading wén)
  3. 3 (commonly used as a personal-name character)

Examples

Tā de míngzì lǐ yǒu yí ge mín zì.
Her name contains the character 玟.
Zhè kuài shítou yǒu mín yíyàng de wénlù.
This stone has veins like jade-stone.

Tips

usage
Two readings: mín (jade-like stone, the more common reading) and wén (veins in jade). Today the character is mostly seen in personal names — particularly in Korean / Taiwanese names where stands for the Korean syllable 'min' (e.g. Korean singer Lee Min-woo / ). The (jade) radical signals all the 'jade-like stone' family of characters ( ).

Stroke Order

mín