村民

Chinese

		village	the people; nationality; citizen
simp. and trad. (村民)		村	民

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cūnmín

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄨㄣ ㄇㄧㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cyun¹ man⁴
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): chhoan-bîn

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ceng¹ ming⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: cūnmín
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄨㄣ ㄇㄧㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cunmín
    • Wade–Giles: tsʻun¹-min²
    • Yale: tswūn-mín
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsuenmin
    • Palladius: цуньминь (cunʹminʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰwən⁵⁵ min³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: cyun¹ man⁴
    • Yale: chyūn màhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsyn¹ man⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: qun¹ men⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ʃʰyːn⁵⁵ mɐn²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhoan-bîn
    • Tâi-lô: tshuan-bîn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhoanbiin
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sʰuan⁴⁴⁻²² bin²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰuan³³ bin²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰuan⁴⁴⁻²² bin¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰuan⁴⁴⁻³³ bin²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰuan⁴⁴⁻³³ bin²³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ceng¹ ming⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshṳng mîng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɯŋ³³⁻²³ miŋ⁵⁵/

Noun

村民

1. (countable) villager; country folk (Classifier: 名 m; 位 m; 個／个 m)

   村民全體去首都抗議新法令。 [MSC, trad.]
   村民全体去首都抗议新法令。 [MSC, simp.]

   Cūnmín quántǐ qù shǒudū kàngyì xīn fǎlìng. [Pinyin]

   The villagers went en masse to the capital to protest the new regulation.

Synonyms

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• 草地人 (Min Nan)
• 莊下人／庄下人 (Hakka)
• 鄉下人／乡下人 (xiāngxiarén)

• 鄉人／乡人 (xiāngrén)
• 鄉民／乡民 (xiāngmín)
• 鄉裡人／乡里人 (Xiang)

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
村	民
そん Grade: 1	みん Grade: 4
on’yomi

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) そんみん [sòńmíń] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [sõ̞mʲːĩɴ]

Noun

村(そん)民(みん) • (sonmin) 

1. villager or villagers, the inhabitants of a village

Synonyms

• 村人(むらびと) (murabito)