mín

heaven

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartminmrə[n]austere, severe
Zhengzhangmrɯn
Unicodemyin

說文解字

秋天也。从日文聲。《虞書》曰:“仁閔覆下,則稱旻天。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica