覯閔

Chinese

		complete; meet unexpectedly; see	surname; feel compassion for
trad. (覯閔)		覯	閔
simp. (觏闵)		觏	闵
alternative forms		遘愍 遘閔／遘闵

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gòumǐn

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄡˋ ㄇㄧㄣˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gòumǐn
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄡˋ ㄇㄧㄣˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gòumǐn
    • Wade–Giles: kou⁴-min³
    • Yale: gòu-mǐn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gowmiin
    • Palladius: гоуминь (gouminʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /koʊ̯⁵¹ min²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

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• Middle Chinese: kuwH minX

Rime
Character	覯	閔
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	侯 (137)	眞 (44)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	古候切	眉殞切
Baxter	kuwH	minX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kəuH/	/mˠiɪnX/
Pan Wuyun	/kəuH/	/mᵚinX/
Shao Rongfen	/kəuH/	/mienX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kəwH/	/mjinX/
Li Rong	/kuH/	/mjĕnX/
Wang Li	/kəuH/	/mǐĕnX/
Bernard Karlgren	/kə̯uH/	/mi̯ĕnX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	gòu	mǐn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gau3	man5

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*kˤ(r)o-s  mrə[n]ʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*koːs  mrɯnʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	覯	閔
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	gòu	mǐn
Middle Chinese	‹ kuwH ›	‹ minX ›
Old Chinese	/*kˁ(r)o-s/	/*mrə[n]ʔ/
English	come across, meet with	grieved
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	覯	閔
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	4194	9154
Phonetic component	冓	閔
Rime group	侯	文
Rime subdivision	0	1
Corresponding MC rime	遘	愍
Old Chinese	/*koːs/	/*mrɯnʔ/
Notes		說文文聲

Verb

覯閔

1. (literary) to suffer from great misfortune

   • 覯閔既多，受侮不少。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     觏闵既多，受侮不少。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on Bernhard Karlgren's version

     Gòumǐn jì duō, shòu wǔ bù shǎo. [Pinyin]

     I have met with suffering in plenty, I have received insults not a little.

2. (literary) to lose one's parents

See also

• 覯痻／觏痻