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民事

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Pronunciation

Peng'im: ming5 se7
POJ: mîng-sūr
Variety: chaozhou

Meanings and usage

noun: civil law; civil affairs, civil (relating to civil law)
民事

Page lists several older/dialectal senses (farm work, corvée, civil administration) alongside the modern legal 'civil' sense; the modern legal sense was chosen as most likely but the reading itself doesn't disambiguate.

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