# 國人
## Chinese
### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): guórén
    (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄛˊ ㄖㄣˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): gwok$^3$ jan$^4$
* Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): gog$^4$ ring$^5$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: guórén
*** Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄛˊ ㄖㄣˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: guórén
*** Wade–Giles: kuo$^2$-jên$^2$
*** Yale: gwó-rén
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gworen
*** Palladius: гожэнь (gožɛnʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /ku̯ɔ³⁵ ʐən³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: gwok$^3$ jan$^4$
*** Yale: gwok yàhn
*** Cantonese Pinyin: gwok$^8$ jan$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: guog$^3$ yen$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /kʷɔːk̚³ jɐn²¹/
* Southern Min
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: gog$^4$ ring$^5$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: kok jîng
*** Sinological IPA : /kok̚²⁻⁴ d͡ziŋ⁵⁵/
* Middle Chinese: kwok nyin
Rime :
| Character | 國 | 人 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 見 (28) | 日 (38) |
| Final (韻) | 德 (132) | 眞 (43) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed | Open |
| Division (等) | I | III |
| Fanqie | 古或切 | 如鄰切 |
| Baxter | kwok | nyin |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /kwək̚/ | /ȵiɪn/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /kʷək̚/ | /ȵin/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /kuək̚/ | /ȵʑjen/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /kwək̚/ | /ȵin/ |
| Li Rong | /kuək̚/ | /ȵiĕn/ |
| Wang Li | /kuək̚/ | /ȵʑĭĕn/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /kwək̚/ | /ȵʑi̯ĕn/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | guo | rén |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | gwak$^1$ | jan$^4$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[C.q]ʷˤək ni[ŋ]/
    (Zhengzhang): /*kʷɯːɡ njin/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 國 | 人 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | guó | rén |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ kwok › | ‹ nyin › |
| Old Chinese | /*[C.q]ʷˁək/ | /*ni[ŋ]/ |
| English | state (n.) | (other) person |
| Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary. |||
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 國 | 人 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/1 |
| No. | 5547 | 10800 |
| Phonetic component | 或 | 人 |
| Rime group | 職 | 眞 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 國 | 仁 |
| Old Chinese | /*kʷɯːɡ/ | /*njin/ |

### Noun

國人
* compatriot; fellow countryman
    國人原創漫畫／国人原创漫画 ― guórén yuánchuàng mànhuà ― domestic original manhua
    From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
    Fū yě bùliáng, guórén zhī zhī. [Pinyin]
    That man is not good, and the people of the State know it.
    From: Mencius, c. 4th century BCE
    Guórén jiē yuē bùkě, rán hòu chá zhī; jiàn bùkě yān, rán hòu qù zhī. [Pinyin]
    But if all the people of the state say he is unworthy, investigate, and if you find that he is indeed unworthy, only then dismiss him
* (historical) passer-by
    From: Xunzi, c. 3rd century BCE
    Jiǎ zhī yǒu dìxiōng zīcái ér fēn zhě, qiě shùn qíngxìng, hǎolì ér yùdé, ruòshì, zé xiōngdì xiàng fú duó yǐ; qiě huà lǐyì zhī wénlǐ, ruòshì, zé ràng hū guórén yǐ. [Pinyin]
    Suppose there were brothers with financial resources to divide: let them they follow their sentiments and natures –that is, fondness for benefit and desire for gain; if so, they would despoil and deprive each other; yet let them be changed by the forms and reasons of propriety and rectitude; if so, they would give away (their financial resources) to passers-by.

#### Synonyms

* (compatriot): 同文 (tóngwén) (literary, figurative)