綿蠻

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Chinese

		cotton; incessant; soft cotton; incessant; soft; downy	barbarian; bullying; very barbarian; bullying; very; quite; rough; reckless
trad. (綿蠻)		綿	蠻
simp. (绵蛮)		绵	蛮

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): miánmán

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄢˊ ㄇㄢˊ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: miánmán
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄢˊ ㄇㄢˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: miánmán
  - Wade–Giles: mien²-man²
  - Yale: myán-mán
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mianman
  - Palladius: мяньмань (mjanʹmanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mi̯ɛn³⁵ män³⁵/

Noun

綿蠻

(literary) small birds, or the chirping of birds
- 綿蠻黃鳥，止于丘阿。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
  绵蛮黄鸟，止于丘阿。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]
  From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
  Miánmán huángniǎo, zhǐ yú qiū'ē.
  There is that little / chirping oriole,
  Resting on a bend of the mound.

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (綿蠻):

→ Vietnamese: miên man (綿蠻)

References

^ Mao Commentary, "Mian Man"
^ Zhu Xi, 《詩經集傳》 Collected Commentaries on the Classic of Poetry, "Vol. 5"

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