Chinese symbol for “plebeian”
庶民
shù mín
the multitude of common people (in highbrow literature); plebeian
The closest CC-CEDICT match for plebeian is 庶民 (shù mín), defined as: the multitude of common people (in highbrow literature); plebeian.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 庶民.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 富庶 | fù shù | populous and affluent |
| 庶子 | shù zǐ | son born of a concubine |
| 庶出 | shù chū | born of a concubine (rather than of the wife) |
| 庶几 (庶幾) | shù jī | (literary) similar; almost; (literary) if only; it is to be hoped that |
| 黎庶 | lí shù | populace; masses; the people |
| 人民 | rén mín | the people |
| 民主 | mín zhǔ | democracy; democratic |
| 民族 | mín zú | nationality; ethnic group |
See also: Japanese symbol for “plebeian”.
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.