蜑民

Chinese

		name of an ethnic group	the people; nationality; citizen
trad. (蜑民)		蜑	民
simp. #(蜑民)		蜑	民
alternative forms		疍民 preferred in Simplified Chinese 蛋民 但民

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dànmín

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄢˋ ㄇㄧㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): daan⁶ man⁴
• Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): tan⁴ min²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dànmín
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄢˋ ㄇㄧㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dànmín
    • Wade–Giles: tan⁴-min²
    • Yale: dàn-mín
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dannmin
    • Palladius: даньминь (danʹminʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tän⁵¹ min³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: daan⁶ man⁴
    • Yale: daahn màhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: daan⁶ man⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: dan⁶ men⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /taːn²² mɐn²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: tan⁴ min²
    • Sinological IPA: /tʰan⁵³⁻⁵⁵ min¹¹/

Noun

蜑民

1. Tanka people

   • 且莫登庸其先不知何許人，或云廣州東莞縣蜑民，其父流至安南海陽路宜陽縣古齋社。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     且莫登庸其先不知何许人，或云广州东莞县蜑民，其父流至安南海阳路宜阳县古斋社。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: 1574, 嚴從簡, 殊域周咨錄

     Qiě Mò Dēngyōng qí xiān bùzhī héxǔrén, huò yún Guǎngzhōu Dōngguǎn xiàn dànmín, qí fù liú zhì Ānnán Hǎiyáng lù Yíyáng xiàn Gǔzhāi shè. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
蜑	民
たん Hyōgaiji	みん Grade: 4
on’yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 蜑民 – see the following entry.

【蛋民たんみん】 [noun] Tanka (Chinese boat person)

(This term, 蜑民, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)