Chinese surname · rank 195
闵
闵 is read as mǐn.
mǐn
Simplified 闵 · Traditional 閔
mourn, grieve; urge on, incite
Earth
Time: Spring and Autumn Lu posthumous-title tradition; Spring and Autumn tradition, 770-476 BCE
Place: Lu state tradition centered on Qufu/Shandong, with earlier Lu enfeoffment context in Zhou sources
Origin note
is a posthumous-title surname in the main source tradition. The line starts in the Ji-surname ruling house of Lu: after King Wu of Zhou enfeoffed the Zhou lineage in Lu, the state passed through the Duke of Zhou's line to Lu Min Gong, also recorded as Ji Qi or Qifang. Surname sources say collateral descendants used his posthumous title as their surname. The page therefore explains through the Lu ruling-house and posthumous-title tradition, while keeping the dictionary meaning of the character only as a reading aid.
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