Chinese symbol for “commoner”
平民
píng mín
ordinary people; commoner (contrasted with the privileged); civilian (contrasted with the military)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for commoner is 平民 (píng mín), defined as: ordinary people; commoner (contrasted with the privileged); civilian (contrasted with the military).
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “commoner”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 小民 | xiǎo mín | ordinary people; commoner |
| 市井小民 | shì jǐng xiǎo mín | ordinary people; the hoi polloi |
| 白丁 | bái dīng | (literary) commoner; unlearned person (in former times, one who had not obtained an official degree); (old) temporary conscript |
| 屁民 | pì mín | (slang) shitizen; commoner |
| 野人 | yě rén | a savage; uncivilized person |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 平民.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 平台 (平臺) | píng tái | platform; terrace |
| 和平 | hé píng | peace; peaceful |
| 水平 | shuǐ píng | horizontal; level; a standard; a level (of ability, development etc) |
| 平均 | píng jūn | average; on average; evenly; in equal proportions |
| 公平 | gōng píng | fair; impartial |
| 平等 | píng děng | equal; equality |
| 人民 | rén mín | the people |
| 民主 | mín zhǔ | democracy; democratic |
See also: Japanese symbol for “commoner”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.