nationals; citizens; people of a nation
国 · 8 strokes
Simplified form of 國. Phonosemantic compound. 囗 represents the meaning and 或 represents the sound.
民 · 5 strokes
Pictograph of an eye (目) being poked with something sharp. In ancient China, slaves were sometimes punished by blinding them with a sharp object. Based on the original meaning "slave". The meaning lat…