瞞

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See also: 瞒
瞞 U+779E, 瞞
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-779E
← 瞝
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 瞟 →

Translingual

Traditional 瞞
Shinjitai
(extended) 		𥈞
Simplified 瞒

Han character

瞞 (Kangxi radical 109, 目+11, 16 strokes, cangjie input 月山廿中月 (BUTLB), four-corner 64027, composition ⿰目㒼)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 816, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23649
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1229, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2509, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+779E

Chinese

trad. 瞞
simp. 瞒

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (芇) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
芇 *men, *meːnʔ, *maːn
蹣 *boːn, *moːn
瞞 *moːn
顢 *moːn
樠 *moːn, *mon, *muːn
慲 *moːn
鬗 *moːn, *mons
滿 *moːnʔ
鏋 *moːnʔ
懣 *moːnʔ, *muːnʔ, *muːns
璊 *muːn

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *moːn) and ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : semantic 目 (“eye”) + phonetic 㒼 (, “to cover something carefully and tightly without a break”).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • boân - literary;
  • môa - vernacular.
Rime
Character 瞞
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 桓 (62)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 母官切
Baxter man
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/muɑn/
Pan
Wuyun 		/mʷɑn/
Shao
Rongfen 		/muɑn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/mwan/
Li
Rong 		/muɑn/
Wang
Li 		/muɑn/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/muɑn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		mán
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		mun4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 瞞
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		mán
Middle
Chinese 		‹ man ›
Old
Chinese 		/*mˁ/
English be deceived

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 瞞
Reading # 1/1
No. 9033
Phonetic
component 		芇
Rime
group 		元
Rime
subdivision 		3
Corresponding
MC rime 		瞞
Old
Chinese 		/*moːn/
Notes 朱駿聲芇聲

Definitions

瞞

  1. to deceive; to lie; to conceal
    欺瞞／欺瞒  ―  qīmán  ―  to deceive, to dupe
    隱瞞／隐瞒  ―  yǐnmán  ―  to conceal; to hide; to cover up
    不瞞您說／不瞒您说  ―  bù mán nín shuō  ―  to tell you the truth
    原來你哋兩個拍咗拖兩年㗎啦？做咩瞞住我哋咁耐啊？ [Cantonese, trad.]
    原来你哋两个拍咗拖两年㗎啦？做咩瞒住我哋咁耐啊？ [Cantonese, simp.]
    jyun4 loi4 nei5 dei6 loeng5 go3 paak3 zo2 to1 loeng5 nin4 gaa4 laa4? zou6 me1 mun4 zyu6 ngo5 dei6 gam3 noi6 aa3?
    You two have been dating for two years? How come you've been keeping that from us for so long?
  2. † eyes half-closed

Synonyms

  • (to deceive):

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

瞞

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. deception

Readings

Korean

Hanja

瞞 • (man) (hangeul 만, revised man, McCune–Reischauer man, Yale man)

  1. deceive
  2. lie
  3. eyes half-closed

Vietnamese

Han character

瞞: Hán Nôm readings: man

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