闽
閩Min3
#3,300 most
frequent character
short name for Fujian province 福建[Fu2 jian4]
Character breakdown
Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
闽 uses 虫 insect as the meaning part and 门 mén as the sound part. Its first meaning was a biting flying insect, later written 蚊. The name for Fujian was borrowed for its sound, not from the insect idea.
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