民家

Chinese

		the people; nationality; citizen	home; family; ‑ist home; family; ‑ist; ‑er; ‑ian; measure word for stores and schools
simp. and trad. (民家)		民	家

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mínjiā

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄣˊ ㄐㄧㄚ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): man⁴ gaa¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bîn-ke

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mínjiā
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄣˊ ㄐㄧㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mínjia
    • Wade–Giles: min²-chia¹
    • Yale: mín-jyā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: minjia
    • Palladius: миньцзя (minʹczja)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /min³⁵ t͡ɕi̯ä⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: man⁴ gaa¹
    • Yale: màhn gā
    • Cantonese Pinyin: man⁴ gaa¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: men⁴ ga¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɐn²¹ kaː⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bîn-ke
    • Tâi-lô: bîn-ke
    • Phofsit Daibuun: binkef
    • IPA (Xiamen): /bin²⁴⁻²² ke⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /bin²⁴⁻²² ke³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /bin¹³⁻²² ke⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /bin²⁴⁻¹¹ ke⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /bin²³⁻³³ ke⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: mjin kae

Rime
Character	民	家
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	眞 (43)	麻 (98)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	II
Fanqie	彌鄰切	古牙切
Baxter	mjin	kae
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/miɪn/	/kˠa/
Pan Wuyun	/min/	/kᵚa/
Shao Rongfen	/mjen/	/ka/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/min/	/kaɨ/
Li Rong	/miĕn/	/ka/
Wang Li	/mĭĕn/	/ka/
Bernhard Karlgren	/mi̯ĕn/	/ka/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mín	jiā
Expected Cantonese Reflex	man4	gaa1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*mi[ŋ]  kˤra/

  (Zhengzhang): /*min  kraː/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	民	家
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	mín	jiā
Middle Chinese	‹ mjin ›	‹ kæ ›
Old Chinese	/*mi[ŋ]/	/*kˁra/
English	people	household
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	民	家
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	9130	5919
Phonetic component	民	家
Rime group	眞	魚
Rime subdivision	1	0
Corresponding MC rime	民	嘉
Old Chinese	/*min/	/*kraː/

Noun

民家

1. civilian home/house
2. Bai, an ethnic group living primarily in Yunnan, China

Japanese

Kanji in this term
民	家
みん Grade: 4	か Grade: 2
on'yomi

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) みんか [míꜜǹkà] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [mʲĩŋka̠]

Noun

民(みん)家(か) • (minka) 

1. civilian house