Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 4

JLPT level: N3

28 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 5

Meaning: people, nation, subjects

Kunyomi: たみ

Onyomi: ミン

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: うじ

Meaning: clan

Strokes: 4

Examples

Examples with audio

衆(みんしゅう)   people, populace, masses

族(みんぞく)   race, nation, people

謡(みんよう)   (traditional) folk song

営(みんえい)   private management

(こくみん)   citizen, people, nation

(しみん)   citizen, townspeople

(けんみん)   citizens of a prefecture

(じゅうみん)   residents, population

(しょみん)   masses, common people

(のうみん)   farmers, peasants

主主義(みんしゅしゅぎ)   democracy

(たみ)   nation, people

Onyomi Examples

ミン citizen, resident, person, user (of a website, esp. as a collective, e.g. Twittersphere)

ミンイ popular will, will of the people

ジミン Liberal Democratic Party, LDP

コウミン citizen, freemen

Kunyomi Examples

たみ people, citizens, subjects, folk

たみくさ people, populace

くにたみ people of a country

流浪の るろうのたみ wandering people, nomadic tribe