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Nguyen / Ruan
Surname
阮 is the original Chinese character that represented the Vietnamese surname Nguyễn before Vietnam stopped using Chinese characters and romanized their language. It is probably the most common surname in all of Vietnam. While romanized as Nguyen, it sounds more like the English word “Win” or “When.” 阮 can also represent the Nguyen Dynasty in Vietnam, which lasted from 1802 to 1945.
阮 is also the Chinese surname Ruan, most Chinese with this surname have ancestors from a small state named Ruan during the Shang Dynasty (1600-1046 BC) located in the southeast of modern-day Gansu Province.
In Japanese, this can be the rare surnames pronounced Min, Gen, Ken, Gan, or En.
Besides a surname, this character also represents an ancient musical instrument.
Clever
Minh
ミン is the name Minh in Japanese Katakana.
Note: Because this title is entirely Japanese Katakana, it should be written by a Japanese calligrapher.
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| Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
敏 see styles |
mǐn min3 min min みん |
More info & calligraphy: Clever(noun or adjectival noun) (ant: 鈍) quick; nimble; agile; sharp; smart; clever; (personal name) Min Clever, active, ingenious, witty. |
民生 see styles |
mín shēng min2 sheng1 min sheng minsei / minse みんせい |
More info & calligraphy: People’s Livelihood and Welfarepublic welfare; the people's livelihood; (given name) Minsei |
額敏 额敏 see styles |
é mǐn e2 min3 o min |
More info & calligraphy: Emin |
冺 泯 see styles |
mǐn min3 min |
variant of 泯[min3] See: 泯 |
刡 see styles |
mǐn min3 min |
to scrape; to pare |
勄 see styles |
mǐn min3 min |
old variant of 敏[min3] |
姄 see styles |
mín min2 min |
(used in female given names) (old) |
岷 see styles |
mín min2 min |
name of a river in Sichuan |
崏 see styles |
mín min2 min |
old variant of 岷[min2] |
愍 see styles |
mǐn min3 min min |
variant of 憫|悯[min3] idem 憫. Grieve for, mourn, sympathize. |
慜 see styles |
mǐn min3 min min |
clever; old variant of 愍[min3] kind慈] |
憫 悯 see styles |
mǐn min3 min bin |
to sympathize; to pity; to feel compassion for; (literary) to feel sorrow; to be grieved sympathy |
抿 see styles |
mǐn min3 min |
to smooth hair with a wet brush; (of a mouth, wing etc) to close lightly; to sip |
敃 see styles |
mǐn min3 min |
strong; robust; vigorous |
旻 see styles |
mín min2 min min みん |
heaven (personal name) Min |
旼 see styles |
mín min2 min |
gentle and affable |
暋 see styles |
mǐn min3 min |
(literary) rude and unreasonable |
民 see styles |
mín min2 min min みん |
(bound form) the people; inhabitants of a country (suffix) (1) citizen; resident; person; (suffix) (2) (colloquialism) user (of a website, esp. as a collective, e.g. Twittersphere); (personal name) Min the people |
泯 see styles |
mǐn min3 min min みん |
(bound form) to vanish; to die out; to obliterate (given name) Min Vast; to flow off; ruin, confusion. |
湣 see styles |
mǐn min3 min |
(ancient character used in posomethingumous titles of monarchs); old variant of 憫|悯[min3] |
珉 see styles |
mín min2 min |
alabaster, jade-like stone |
琝 see styles |
mín min2 min |
old variant of 玟[min2] |
瑉 see styles |
mín min2 min |
variant of 珉[min2] |
痻 see styles |
mín min2 min |
to be ill |
皿 see styles |
mǐn min3 min sara さら |
(bound form) dish; vessel; shallow container; radical no. 108 (1) plate; dish; platter; disc; (n,n-suf,ctr) (2) serving; helping; course; (3) kanji radical 108 (at the bottom); (place-name) Sara |
碈 see styles |
mín min2 min |
old variant of 珉[min2] |
緍 𦈏 see styles |
mín min2 min |
old variant of 緡|缗[min2] |
緡 缗 see styles |
mín min2 min sashi; bin さし; びん |
cord; fishing-line; string of coins (1) (See 緡縄・さしなわ) slender rope that goes through the hole in a coin; (n,ctr) (2) string of coins (usu. 100 mon) |
罠 see styles |
mín min2 min wana わな |
animal trap (1) snare; trap (for catching wild game, etc.); (2) trap (i.e. ruse, subterfuge, etc.) |
苠 see styles |
mín min2 min |
multitude; skin of bamboo |
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The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
| Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
| Nguyen Ruan | 阮 / 阮 阮 | Min / Gen | ruǎn / ruan3 / ruan | juan |
| Clever | 敏 | bin | mǐn / min3 / min | |
| Minh | ミン | min | ||
| In some entries above you will see that characters have different versions above and below a line. In these cases, the characters above the line are Traditional Chinese, while the ones below are Simplified Chinese. | ||||
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