嫚

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嫚 U+5ADA, 嫚
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5ADA
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 嫛 →

Translingual

Han character

嫚 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 女日田水 (VAWE), four-corner 46447, composition ⿰女曼)

  1. despise, insult, scorn
  2. be rude, affront

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 269, character 26
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6644
  • Dae Jaweon: page 537, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1077, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+5ADA

Chinese

trad. 嫚
simp. # 嫚

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

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 嫚
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 刪 (69)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 謨晏切
Baxter maenH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/mˠanH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/mᵚanH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/mɐnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/maɨnH/
Li
Rong 		/manH/
Wang
Li 		/manH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/manH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		màn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		maan6
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 嫚
Reading # 1/1
No. 8736
Phonetic
component 		曼
Rime
group 		元
Rime
subdivision 		3
Corresponding
MC rime 		慢
Old
Chinese 		/*mroːns/

Definitions

嫚

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Compounds

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Definitions

嫚

  1. (dialect) girl

References

Japanese

Kanji

嫚

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. scorn
  2. despise
  3. be rude
  4. affront

Readings

Korean

Hanja

嫚 (eum 만 (man))

  1. despise
  2. belittle
  3. make dirty
  4. beautiful (원)

Vietnamese

Han character

嫚: Hán Nôm readings: mạn

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