氓

氓 (Kangxi radical 83, 氏+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 卜女口女心 (YVRVP), four-corner 0774₇, composition ⿰亡民)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 598, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17030
• Dae Jaweon: page 990, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2131, character 3
• Unihan data for U+6C13

Historical forms of the character 氓
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *mraːŋ) : phonetic 亡 (OC *maŋ) + semantic 民 (“people”).

氓

1. ruffian, hooligan

   See also: 流氓

Cognate with Tibetan དམངས (dmangs, “ordinary people; populace”), Tibetan འབངས ('bangs, “subjects”) (Benedict, 1976). Unrelated to 民 (OC *min, “people”); probably unrelated to etymology 1 (Schuessler, 2007).

氓

1. (literary) people; folk
   • alt. forms: 萌, 甿 (méng)

   • 氓之蚩蚩，抱布貿絲。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     氓之蚩蚩，抱布贸丝。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

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

     Méng zhī chīchī, bào bù mào sī. [Pinyin]

     A simple-looking lad you were,
     Carrying cloth to exchange it for silk.

2. nomad; wanderer (used to refer to migrants in ancient China)

• “氓”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
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(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. people, subjects

• Go-on: みょう (myō)
• Kan-on: もう (mō)
• Kan’yō-on: ぼう (bō)
• Kun: たみ (tami, 氓)

氓 • (maeng) (hangeul 맹, revised maeng, McCune–Reischauer maeng, Yale mayng)

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氓: Hán Nôm readings: manh

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