闽
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short name for Fujian 福建[Fu2 jian4]; also pr. [Min2]
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 門 +6
- Structure
- Top enclosure 上包
- Traditional
- 閩
- Common rank
- #2,906
- Unicode
- U+95FD
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 闽
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 闽南语 | Southern Min, a Sinitic language spoken in southern Fujian and surrounding areas; Hokkien,… | |
| 闽清县 | Minqing, a county in Fuzhou City 福州市[Fu2 zhou1 Shi4], Fujian | |
| 闽南话 | Southern Min, a family of Sinitic languages spoken in southern Fujian and surrounding area… | |
| 闽南 | Minnan (southern Fujian) | |
| 闽语 | Min dialects, spoken in Fujian Province, Taiwan etc | |
| 闽江 | Min River, Fujian | |
| 闽清 | see 閩清縣|闽清县[Min3 qing1 Xian4] | |
| 纳闽 | Labuan, island territory of Malaysia off Sabah coast, north Borneo 婆羅洲|婆罗洲 | |
| 闽菜 | Fujian cuisine | |
| 闽侯县 | Minhou, a county in Fuzhou City 福州市[Fu2 zhou1 Shi4], Fujian | |
| 川鲁粤苏浙闽湘徽 | the cuisines of Sichuan, Shandong, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Hunan and Anhui (… | |
| 闽侯 | see 閩侯縣|闽侯县[Min3 hou4 Xian4] | |
| 闽粤 | Fujian and Guangdong |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 门 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 门 sound part | gate, door, entrance, opening | |
| 问 | to ask about, to inquire after | |
| 闻 | news; to hear, to smell; to make known | |
| 闷 | gloomy, depressed, melancholy | |
| 们 | plural marker for pronouns and some nouns | |
| 闰 | intercalary; extra, surplus | |
| 蔺 | hay, straw; surname | |
| 闵 | to mourn, to grieve; to incite, to urge on | |
| 扪 | to stoke, to pat; to grope, to feel | |
| 訚 | respectful; to speak gently | |
| 钔 | mendelevium |