敏

敏 U+654F, 敏
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-654F
← 敎
[U+654E] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 敐 →
[U+6550]

敏 U+FA41, 敏
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA41
← 懲
[U+FA40] 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 既 →
[U+FA42]
敏 U+2F8C8, 敏
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F8C8
← 㩬
[U+2F8C7] 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 敬 →
[U+2F8C9]

Translingual

Han character

敏 (Kangxi radical 66, 攴+7 in Chinese, 攴+6 in Japanese, 11 strokes in Chinese, 10 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 人卜人大 (OYOK), four-corner 88540, composition ⿰每攵)

  1. fast, quick, clever, smart
  2. A given name

Derived characters
  • 𠍁, 𠽊, 𢄯, 𤨨, 𥼖, 𪉾

References

Chinese
simp. and trad.
 敏
alternative forms 勄

Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 敏
Western Zhou
Bronze inscriptions
Characters in the same phonetic series (母) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
脢 *mɯːs, *mɯː, *mɯːs
挴 *mlɯːʔ, *mɯːʔ
海 *hmlɯːʔ
毐 *ʔmɯː, *ʔmɯːʔ
呣 *mɯ
拇 *mɯʔ
母 *mɯʔ
胟 *mɯʔ
姆 *mɯʔ, *mɯs, *maːʔ
畮 *mɯʔ
踇 *mɯʔ
苺 *mɯs, *mɯːʔ, *mɯːs
莓 *mɯs, *mɯː, *mɯːs
敏 *mrɯʔ, *mrɯŋʔ
鰵 *mrɯŋʔ
慜 *mrɯŋʔ
毋 *ma
梅 *mɯː
酶 *mɯː
鋂 *mɯː
每 *mɯːʔ
毎 *mɯːs
痗 *mɯːs, *hmɯːs
晦 *hmɯːs
誨 *hmɯːs
悔 *hmɯːʔ, *hmɯːs
霉 *mrɯl

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *mrɯʔ, *mrɯŋʔ) : phonetic 每 (OC *mɯːʔ) + semantic 攴 (“hand; action”). The 攴 component was sometimes written as 又 (“hand”) in early writing.

Pronunciation

Note:
  • miang2 - Shantou;
  • miêng2 - Chaozhou.
  • Dialectal data
Variety Location 敏
Mandarin Beijing /min²¹⁴/
Harbin /min²¹³/
Tianjin /min¹³/
Jinan /miẽ⁵⁵/
Qingdao /miə̃⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /min⁵³/
Xi'an /miẽ⁵³/
Xining /miə̃⁵³/
Yinchuan /miŋ⁵³/
Lanzhou /mĩn⁴⁴²/
Ürümqi /miŋ⁵¹/
Wuhan /min⁴²/
Chengdu /min⁵³/
Guiyang /min⁴²/
Kunming /mĩ⁵³/
Nanjing /min²¹²/
Hefei /min²⁴/
Jin Taiyuan /miəŋ⁵³/
Pingyao /miŋ⁵³/
Hohhot /mĩŋ⁵³/
Wu Shanghai /miŋ²³/
Suzhou /min⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /min⁵³/
Wenzhou /meŋ³⁵/
Hui Shexian /miʌ̃³⁵/
Tunxi /min³¹/
Xiang Changsha /min⁴¹/
Xiangtan /min⁴²/
Gan Nanchang /min²¹³/
Hakka Meixian /men³¹/
Taoyuan /mien²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /mɐn²³/
Nanning /mɐn²⁴/
Hong Kong /mɐn¹³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /bin⁵³/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /miŋ³²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /meiŋ²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /miaŋ⁵³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /min²¹³/
Rime
Character 敏
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 眞 (44)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 眉殞切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /mˠiɪnX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /mᵚinX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /mienX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /mjinX/
Li
Rong		 /mjĕnX/
Wang
Li		 /mǐĕnX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /mi̯ĕnX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 mǐn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex		 man5
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 敏
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 mǐn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ minX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*mrə[n]ʔ/ (~ *mrəʔ)
English diligent, active

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 敏 敏
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 9296 9297
Phonetic
component		 母 母
Rime
group		 之 蒸
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 愍 愍
Old
Chinese		 /*mrɯʔ/ /*mrɯŋʔ/

Definitions

敏

  1. quick
  2. clever

Compounds
  • 精敏
  • 西敏寺 (Xīmǐnsì)
  • 辨敏
  • 伶俐聰敏／伶俐聪敏
  • 心閑手敏／心闲手敏
  • 敏感話題／敏感话题
  • 敏於伎／敏于伎
  • 敏給／敏给
  • 敏練慈愷／敏练慈恺
  • 敏贍／敏赡
  • 敏銳／敏锐 (mǐnruì)
  • 敬謝不敏／敬谢不敏
  • 機敏／机敏 (jīmǐn)
  • 熱敏性／热敏性

Japanese
Shinjitai 敏
Kyūjitai
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敏
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敏+&#xFE00;?
敏󠄀
敏+&#xE0100;?
(Adobe-Japan1)
敏󠄃
敏+&#xE0103;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
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Kanji
敏

(common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 敏)

  1. alert
  2. agile
  3. quick

Readings

Compounds
Kanji in this term
敏
びん
Grade: S
on’yomi
Alternative spelling
敏 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 敏 (MC mˠiɪnX).

Pronunciation

Adjective

敏(びん) • (bin) -na (adnominal 敏(びん)な (bin na), adverbial 敏(びん)に (bin ni))

  1. quick, sharp

Inflection
Inflection of 敏
Stem forms
Imperfective (未然形) 敏だろ びんだろ bin daro
Continuative (連用形) 敏で びんで bin de
Terminal (終止形) 敏だ びんだ bin da
Attributive (連体形) 敏な びんな bin na
Hypothetical (仮定形) 敏なら びんなら bin nara
Imperative (命令形) 敏であれ びんであれ bin de are
Key constructions
Informal negative 敏ではない
敏じゃない		 びんではない
びんじゃない		 bin de wa nai
bin ja nai
Informal past 敏だった びんだった bin datta
Informal negative past 敏ではなかった
敏じゃなかった		 びんではなかった
びんじゃなかった		 bin de wa nakatta
bin ja nakatta
Formal 敏です びんです bin desu
Formal negative 敏ではありません
敏じゃありません		 びんではありません
びんじゃありません		 bin de wa arimasen
bin ja arimasen
Formal past 敏でした びんでした bin deshita
Formal negative past 敏ではありませんでした
敏じゃありませんでした		 びんではありませんでした
びんじゃありませんでした		 bin de wa arimasen deshita
bin ja arimasen deshita
Conjunctive 敏で びんで bin de
Conditional 敏なら（ば） びんなら（ば） bin nara (ba)
Provisional 敏だったら びんだったら bin dattara
Volitional 敏だろう びんだろう bin darō
Adverbial 敏に びんに bin ni
Degree 敏さ びんさ binsa

Noun

敏(びん) • (bin) 

  1. quickness, sharpness

Proper noun

敏(さとし) • (Satoshi) 

  1. a male given name

References
  1. “敏”, in 漢字ぺディア (Kanjipedia)‎ (in Japanese), 日本漢字能力検定協会, 2015—2023
  2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

敏 (eumhun 민첩할 민 (mincheophal min))

  1. Hanja form? of 민 (“nimble, agile”).
  2. Hanja form? of 민 (“quick-witted”).
  3. Hanja form? of 민 (“humble, well-mannered”).
  4. Hanja form? of 민 (“thorough”).
  5. Hanja form? of 민 (“hardworking”).

Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

敏: Hán Nôm readings: mẫn, mắn

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Compounds
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