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蠻
蠻
See also: 蛮
Translingual
Han character
蠻 (radical 142 虫+19, 25 strokes, cangjie input 女火中一戈 (VFLMI), four-corner 22136, composition ⿱䜌虫)
References
- KangXi: page 1104, character 25
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33914
- Dae Jaweon: page 1567, character 18
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2909, character 21
- Unihan data for U+883B
Chinese
| trad. | 蠻 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 蛮 | |
| alt. forms | 滿／满 “quite” | |
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (䜌) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 蠻 | *mroːn |
| 矕 | *mroːnʔ |
| 變 | *prons |
| 鸞 | *b·roːn |
| 巒 | *b·roːn |
| 灤 | *b·roːn |
| 欒 | *b·roːn |
| 鑾 | *b·roːn |
| 臠 | *b·roːn, *b·ronʔ |
| 羉 | *b·roːn |
| 䜌 | *b·roːn, *b·ron, *b·rons |
| 灓 | *b·roːn, *b·roːns, *b·rons |
| 圝 | *b·roːn |
| 曫 | *b·roːn |
| 孿 | *smroːns, *smrons |
| 彎 | *qroːn |
| 灣 | *qroːn |
| 攣 | *b·ron |
| 孌 | *b·ronʔ, *b·rons |
| 戀 | *b·rons |
| 㪻 | *pʰlons, *klons |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *mroːn) : phonetic 䜌 (OC *b·roːn, *b·ron, *b·rons) + semantic 虫 (“snake”).
Etymology
Possibly related to Burmese မြန်မာ (mranma, “Myanmar; Burma; Burmese”), Tibetan བྲན (bran, “servant, slave”).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄇㄢˊ
- Wade-Giles: man2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: man
- IPA (key): /ma̠n³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: maan4
- Yale: màahn
- Cantonese Pinyin: maan4
- IPA (key): /mɑːn²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bân
- Tâi-lô: bân
- Phofsit Daibuun: baan
- IPA (Xiamen): /ban²⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /ban²⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /ban¹³/
- IPA (Taipei): /ban²⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /ban²³/
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: me (T3)
- IPA (key): /mᴇ²³/
- (Shanghainese)
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 蠻 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 明 (4) |
| Final (韻) | 刪 (69) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | II |
| Fanqie | 莫還切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/mˠan/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/mᵚan/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/mɐn/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/maɨn/ |
| Li Rong |
/man/ |
| Wang Li |
/man/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/man/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
mán |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 蠻 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
mán |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ maen › |
| Old Chinese |
/*mˤro[n]/ |
| English | southern foreigner |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 蠻 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 8610 |
| Phonetic component |
|
| Rime group |
元 |
| Rime subdivision |
3 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
蠻 |
| Old Chinese |
/*mroːn/ |
| Notes | 金文作 |
Definitions
蠻
- (historical, derogatory) A collective name for all the non-Han ethnic groups in modern-day southern China.
- barbarous; savage; uncivilised
- rough; rude; unreasonable
- valiantly; uncouthly; vulgarly
- (dialectal, colloquial) very; quite
Synonyms
- (very):
| Dialectal synonyms of 很 (“very; quite”) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Variety | Location | Words |
| Classical Chinese | 甚 | |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 非常、很、十分、太 | |
| Mandarin | Beijing | 挺、很 |
| Taiwan | 很、挺 | |
| Tianjin | 挺、很 | |
| Jinan | 挺、楞 | |
| Xi'an | 很 | |
| Wuhan | 蠻、很 | |
| Chengdu | 很 | |
| Yangzhou | 蠻、稀、很 | |
| Hefei | 很 | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 好 |
| Hong Kong | 好 | |
| Taishan | 好 | |
| Yangjiang | 好 | |
| Gan | Nanchang | 蠻 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 好 |
| Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 當、已、還 | |
| Liudui (S. Sixian) | 蓋、盡、還 | |
| Hsinchu (Hailu) | 當、已、還 | |
| Dongshi (Dabu) | 當、已、還 | |
| Zhuolan (Raoping) | 當、已、還 | |
| Yunlin (Zhao'an) | 足、真、實在 | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 很、挺 |
| Min Bei | Jian'ou | 真 |
| Min Dong | Fuzhou | 野、真 |
| Min Nan | Quanzhou | 真、野、誠、有夠 |
| Xiamen | 真、野、誠、有夠 | |
| Zhangzhou | 盡、蓋、足、足範、有夠 | |
| Taipei | 真、誠 | |
| Kaohsiung | 有夠、足、真、誠、蓋 | |
| Tainan | 有夠、足、真、誠、蓋 | |
| Taichung | 誠、蓋、足 | |
| Yilan | 有夠、足、誠、盡 | |
| Lukang | 真、誠 | |
| Sanxia | 真、誠 | |
| Kinmen | 足、誠 | |
| Magong | 真、誠 | |
| Hsinchu | 真、誠 | |
| Malaysia | 真、誠、真正 | |
| Chaozhou | 過 | |
| Wu | Shanghai | 蠻、老 |
| Suzhou | 蠻 | |
| Wenzhou | 蠻、蒙、顯 | |
| Xiang | Changsha | 很、蠻 |
| Shuangfeng | 蠻 | |
Compounds
Citations
- For usage examples of this term, see Citations:蠻.
Japanese
Kanji
蠻
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
蠻 • (man) (hangeul 만, revised man, McCune-Reischauer man, Yale man)
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