削職為民

demotion to commoner (idiom)

to peel with a knife / to pare / to cut (a ball at tennis etc)

to pare / to reduce / to remove / Taiwan pr. [xue4]

demotion / to have one's job cut

office / duty

as (in the capacity of) / to take sth as / to act as / to serve as / to behave as / to become / to be / to do / by (in the passive voice)

because of / for / to

surname Min

(bound form) the people / inhabitants of a country