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Translingual
Han character
蔓 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 廿日田水 (TAWE), four-corner 44407, composition ⿱艹曼)
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 1054, character 6
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31784
- Dae Jaweon: page 1516, character 29
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3278, character 5
- Unihan data for U+8513
Chinese
Glyph origin
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Old Chinese
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| 獌
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*mroːn, *moːns, *mons
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| 鬘
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*mroːn
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| 謾
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*mroːn, *mroːns, *mon, *moːn, *moːns
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| 慢
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*mroːns
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| 嫚
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*mroːns
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| 縵
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*mroːns, *moːns
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| 曼
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*moːn, *mons
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| 饅
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*moːn
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| 蔓
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*moːn, *mons
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| 鰻
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*moːn, *mons
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| 墁
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*moːn, *moːns
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| 鏝
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*moːn, *moːns
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| 槾
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*moːn
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| 漫
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*moːns
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| 幔
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*moːns
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| 蟃
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*mons
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *moːn, *mons) : semantic 艸 (“grass”) + phonetic 曼 (OC *moːn, *mons).
Pronunciation 1
Note: bān/boān - literary.
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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蔓
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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wàn
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ mjonH ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*C.ma-s/
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| English
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creep; creeping plant
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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.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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蔓
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| Reading #
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2/2
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| No.
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8755
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Phonetic
component
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曼
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Rime
group
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元
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Rime
subdivision
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3
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Corresponding
MC rime
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万
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Old
Chinese
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/*mons/
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Definitions
蔓
- vine; creeper
- to spread; to extend
- a surname
Compounds
Pronunciation 2
| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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蔓
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| Reading #
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1/2
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| No.
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8743
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Phonetic
component
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曼
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Rime
group
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元
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Rime
subdivision
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3
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Corresponding
MC rime
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瞞
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Old
Chinese
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/*moːn/
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Definitions
蔓
- Only used in 蔓菁 (mánjing, “turnip”).
Japanese
Kanji
蔓
(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)
- vine
Readings
- Go-on: まん (man)←まん (man, historical); もん (mon)←もん (mon, historical)
- Kan-on: ばん (ban)←ばん (ban, historical)
- Kan’yō-on: まん (man)←まん (man, historical)
- Kun: つる (tsuru, 蔓); のびる (nobiru, 蔓びる); かずら (kazura, 蔓)←かづら (kadura, 蔓, historical); かづら (kazura, 蔓); つら (tsura, 蔓)
- Nanori: し (shi)
Compounds
Korean
Hanja
蔓 • (man) (hangeul 만, revised man, McCune–Reischauer man, Yale man)
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Vietnamese
Han character
蔓 (mạn, mơn)