珉
mín

stone resembling jade

Phonosemantic compound. 王 represents the meaning and 民 represents the sound.

Components

王
王 Meaning component
wáng king
民
民 Sound component
mín people

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartminmr[ə][n]a kind of precious stone
Zhengzhangmrin
Unicodemyin

說文解字

石之美者。从玉民聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)