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漫
漫
See also: 澷
Translingual
Han character
漫 (radical 85 水+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 水日田水 (EAWE), four-corner 36147, composition ⿰氵曼)
Related characters
References
- KangXi: page 646, character 32
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18166
- Dae Jaweon: page 1056, character 10
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1721, character 10
- Unihan data for U+6F2B
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
漫 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (曼) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 獌 | *mroːn, *moːns, *mons |
| 鬘 | *mroːn |
| 謾 | *mroːn, *mroːns, *mon, *moːn, *moːns |
| 慢 | *mroːns |
| 嫚 | *mroːns |
| 縵 | *mroːns, *moːns |
| 曼 | *moːn, *mons |
| 饅 | *moːn |
| 蔓 | *moːn, *mons |
| 鰻 | *moːn, *mons |
| 墁 | *moːn, *moːns |
| 鏝 | *moːn, *moːns |
| 槾 | *moːn |
| 漫 | *moːns |
| 幔 | *moːns |
| 蟃 | *mons |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *moːns) : semantic 氵 + phonetic 曼 (OC *moːn, *mons) – water overflowing. Note that 曼 means “vast, extended”, so connotations of “too much water, overflow”.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄇㄢˋ
- Wade-Giles: man4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mann
- IPA (key): /ma̠n⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: maan4, maan6
- Yale: màahn, maahn
- Cantonese Pinyin: maan4, maan6
- IPA (key): /mɑːn²¹/, /mɑːn²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bān
- Tâi-lô: bān
- Phofsit Daibuun: ban
- IPA (Xiamen): /ban²²/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /ban⁴¹/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /ban²²/
- IPA (Taipei): /ban³³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /ban³³/
- (Hokkien)
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 漫 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 明 (4) |
| Final (韻) | 桓 (62) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 莫半切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/muɑnH/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/mʷɑnH/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/muɑnH/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/mwanH/ |
| Li Rong |
/muɑnH/ |
| Wang Li |
/muɑnH/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/muɑnH/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
màn |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 漫 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
màn |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ manH › |
| Old Chinese |
/*mˤa[n]-s/ |
| English | wide, limitless |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 漫 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 8748 |
| Phonetic component |
曼 |
| Rime group |
元 |
| Rime subdivision |
3 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
縵 |
| Old Chinese |
/*moːns/ |
Definitions
漫
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Compounds
Derived terms from 漫
References
Japanese
Kanji
漫
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Readings
Compounds
- 漫画 (manga): comics
- 漫言 (mangen)
- 漫語 (mango)
- 漫才 (manzai): a style of double act stand-up comedy
- 漫然 (manzen)
- 漫談 (mandan)
- 漫読 (mandoku)
- 漫罵 (manba)
- 漫筆 (manpitsu)
- 漫評 (manpyō)
- 漫歩 (manpo)
- 漫々 (manman), 漫漫 (manman)
- 漫遊 (man'yū)
- 漫録 (manroku)
- 散漫 (sanman)
- 冗漫 (jōman)
- 瀰漫 (biman)
- 放漫 (hōman)
- 爛漫 (ranman), 瀾漫 (ranman)
Korean
Hanja
漫 • (man) (hangeul 만, revised man, McCune-Reischauer man, Yale man)
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