民和 | Mín hé | Minhe Hui and Tu autonomous county in Haidong prefecture 海东地区, Qinghai |
回民 | Huí mín | Hui ethnic group (Chinese muslims) |
民歌 | mín gē | folk song; CL:支,首 |
人民民主专政 | rén mín mín zhǔ zhuān zhèng | people's democratic dictatorship |
三民主义 | sān mín zhǔ yì | Dr Sun Yat-sen's 孙中山 Three principles of the people (late 1890s) |
新殖民主义 | xīn zhí mín zhǔ yì | neocolonialism |
民意 | mín yì | public opinion; popular will; public will |
人民币 | rén mín bì | Renminbi (RMB); Chinese Yuan (CNY) |
移民 | yí mín | to immigrate; to migrate; emigrant; immigrant |
民工 | mín gōng | workers (esp. on public project) |
富民 | fù mín | to enrich the people; Fumin county in Kunming 昆明, Yunnan |
爱民 | Ài mín | Aimin district of Mudanjiang city 牡丹江市, Heilongjiang |
最高人民法院 | Zuì gāo Rén mín Fǎ yuàn | Supreme People's Court (PRC) |
人民大会堂 | rén mín dà huì táng | Great Hall of the People, at Tiananmen Square |
民办 | mín bàn | run by the local people; privately operated |
国民政府 | Guó mín zhèng fǔ | Nationalist government 1920s-1949 under Chiang Kai-shek 蒋介石 |
民生主义 | mín shēng zhǔ yì | principle of people's livelihood, the third of Dr Sun Yat-sen's 孙中山 Three principles of the people 三民主义 (at the time, meaning redistribution of wealth, self-sufficiency and internal trade) |
民航 | mín háng | civil aviation |
李世民 | Lǐ Shì mín | Li Shimin, personal name of second Tang emperor Taizong 唐太宗 (599-649), reigned 626-649 |
流民 | liú mín | refugee |
灾民 | zāi mín | victim (of a disaster) |
旧民主主义革命 | jiù mín zhǔ zhǔ yì gé mìng | old democratic revolution; bourgeois revolution (in Marx-Leninist theory, a prelude to the proletarian revolution) |
臣民 | chén mín | subject (of a kingdom, ruler etc) |
劳动人民 | láo dòng rén mín | working people; the workers of Socialist theory or of the glorious Chinese past |
侨民 | qiáo mín | expatriates |
公民权 | gōng mín quán | civil rights; citizenship rights |
民主政治 | mín zhǔ zhèng zhì | democracy; democratic |
国民生产总值 | guó mín shēng chǎn zǒng zhí | gross national product (GNP) |
民选 | mín xuǎn | democratically elected |
民警 | mín jǐng | civil police; PRC police; abbr. for 人民警察 |
民族文化 | mín zú wén huà | ethnic culture |
游民 | yóu mín | vagrant; vagabond |
民谣 | mín yáo | ballad |
多民族国家 | duō mín zú guó jiā | multi-ethnic state |
居民点 | jū mín diǎn | residential area |
庶民 | shù mín | the multitude of common people (in highbrow literature); plebeian |
愚民 | yú mín | block-head |
教民 | jiào mín | adherent to a religion; convert |
半封建半殖民地 | bàn fēng jiàn bàn zhí mín dì | semi-feudal and semi-colonial (the official Marxist description of China in the late Qing and under the Guomindang) |
民房 | mín fáng | private house |
民族英雄 | mín zú yīng xióng | national hero |
民权主义 | mín quán zhǔ yì | democracy; civil liberties; principle of democracy, the second of Dr Sun Yat-sen's 孙中山 Three principles of the people 三民主义 (at the time, meaning widespread popular involvement in affairs of state) |
国民革命军 | Guó mín Gé mìng jūn | National Revolutionary Army |
良民 | liáng mín | good people; ordinary people (i.e. not the lowest class) |
贫民窟 | pín mín kū | slum housing |
边民 | biān mín | people living on the frontiers; inhabitants of a border area |
人民公社化 | rén mín gōng shè huà | collectivization of agriculture (disastrous policy of communist Russia around 1930 and China in the 1950s) |
民不聊生 | mín bù liáo shēng | The people have no way to make a living (idiom, from Record of the Grand Historian 史记). no way of getting by |
民族平等 | mín zú píng děng | equality of ethnic groups |
民脂民膏 | mín zhī mín gāo | lit. the fat and wealth of the people (idiom); the nation's hard-won wealth (esp. as an object of unscrupulous exploitation); the people's blood, sweat and tears |