蠻

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See also: 蛮
蠻 U+883B, 蠻
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-883B
← 蠺
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 蠼 →

Translingual

Han character

蠻 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+19, 25 strokes, cangjie input 女火中一戈 (VFLMI), four-corner 22136, composition ⿱龻虫)

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1104, character 25
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33914
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1567, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2909, character 21
  • Unihan data for U+883B

Chinese

trad. 蠻
simp. 蛮
alternative 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／形声, 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

Note:
  • 1me - “very; quite”.
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
Baxter maen
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
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		maan4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 蠻
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		mán
Middle
Chinese 		‹ maen ›
Old
Chinese 		/*mˁro/
English southern foreigner

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 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

  1. (historical, derogatory) A collective name for all non-Han ethnic groups south of Han areas of China in any given era.
    南蠻／南蛮  ―  nánmán  ―  the Southern barbarians
  2. barbarous; savage; uncivilised
  3. rough; rude; unreasonable
    野蠻／野蛮  ―  yěmán  ―  uncivilised; rude and unreasonable
  4. rash; hot-headed
  5. valiantly; uncouthly; vulgarly
    胡攪蠻纏／胡搅蛮缠  ―  hújiǎománchán  ―  to pester somebody endlessly
  6. (dialectal, colloquial) very; quite
    蠻好吃／蛮好吃  ―  mán hǎochī  ―  pretty tasty
    蠻好食／蛮好食 [Waxiang]  ―    ―  pretty tasty
    儂好𠲎？我蠻好。 [Shanghainese, trad.]
    侬好𠲎？我蛮好。 [Shanghainese, simp.]
    6non 5hau 0va 6ngu 1me 5hau [Wugniu]
    How are you? I'm very well.

Quotations

Synonyms

  • (rash):
  • (very):
Dialectal synonyms of 很 (“very”)
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 甚, 孔
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 很, 非常, 十分
Mandarin Beijing 挺, 很, 倍兒, 怪
Taiwan 很, 好, 非常, 超, 蠻, 超級
Tianjin 挺, 很, 傻, 老, 倍兒, 齁兒
Jinan 挺, 楞
Xi'an 很
Wuhan 蠻, 很
Chengdu 很, 好
Chongqing 很
Yangzhou 蠻, 稀, 很
Hefei 很
Malaysia 很
Singapore 很, 蠻, 非常
Cantonese Guangzhou 好, 非常之
Hong Kong 好, 非常, 非常之, 超, 勁, 十分之
Zhongshan (Shiqi) 好
Taishan 好, 十分之
Yangjiang 好
Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu) 好
Singapore (Guangfu) 好, 非常之, 非常
Gan Nanchang 蠻
Hakka Meixian 好, 刮, 已, 還, 異, 還 exclamation
Huidong (Daling) 好
Wuhua (Meilin) 好
Shaoguan (Qujiang) 頂
Lianshan (Xiaosanjiang) 好
Changting 野
Wuping (Pingyu) 已, 刮
Liancheng 樣
Ninghua 好
Ruijin 蠻
Shicheng 蠻
Shangyou (Shexi) 蠻
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 當, 已, 還
Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) 蓋, 盡, 還
Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) 當, 盡, 已, 還
Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) 當, 已, 還
Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) 當, 已, 還
Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) 足, 真, 實在
Hong Kong 好
Sabah (Bao'an) 好
Kuching (Hepo) 很
Singapore (Dabu) 好
Jin Taiyuan 很, 挺
Northern Min Jian'ou 盡
Eastern Min Fuzhou 野, 真
Singapore (Fuqing) 真
Sitiawan (Gutian) 真
Southern Min Xiamen 真, 野, 誠, 有夠, 萬代, 死人, 非常, 真正, 設汰
Xiamen (Tong'an) 真
Quanzhou 真, 野, 誠, 有夠, 萬代, 死人, 設汰
Jinjiang 野
Zhangzhou 盡, 蓋, 足, 足範, 有夠, 出奇, 極死, 見死, 死了了, 死人, 設汰, 設汰仔
Zhao'an 很, 真, 死絕, 好, 非常
Dongshan 真, 非常
Taipei 真, 誠
New Taipei (Sanxia) 真, 誠
Kaohsiung 有夠, 足, 真, 誠, 蓋
Yilan 有夠, 足, 誠, 盡
Changhua (Lukang) 真, 誠
Taichung 誠, 蓋, 足
Tainan 有夠, 足, 真, 誠, 蓋
Hsinchu 真, 誠
Kinmen 足, 誠
Penghu (Magong) 真, 誠
Penang (Hokkien) 真, 誠, 真正
Singapore (Hokkien) 真, 死爸, 真正, 誠, 足, 有夠
Manila (Hokkien) 野, 真, 萬代, 真誠, 誠, 有夠
Chaozhou 過, 好, 非常, 死爸
Shantou 過, 鐵, 好, 很, 死爸, 死絕
Shantou (Chenghai) 好, 死絕
Shantou (Chaoyang) 好, 非常
Jieyang 過, 好, 死爸, 死絕
Bangkok (Teochew) 好
Johor Bahru (Teochew) 好
Singapore (Teochew) 真, 死爸, 非常
Wenchang 極, 但顧, 真
Haikou 但顧
Qionghai 但顧, 真
Singapore (Hainanese) 但顧, 真
Zhongshan Min Shaxi (Longdu) 好, 蠻
Wu Shanghai 蠻, 老, 邪氣, 老老, 瞎, 絕, 十分, 十二萬分, 非常, 非常之, 畢, 畢畢, 來得, 來得個, 煞, 交關, 十二分 rare, 窮 dated, 野 dated, 邪 dated
Suzhou 蠻, 窮
Hangzhou 蠻, 交關, 木佬佬, 冒
Ningbo 交關, 蠻, 堪, 𣍐好, 𣍐派, 甮派, 出格, 木牢牢 rare, 猛 rare
Zhoushan 交關, 蠻, 猛, 堪, 出格, 木牢牢 rare
Wenzhou 蠻, 蒙, 顯
Xiang Changsha 很, 蠻
Shuangfeng 蠻

Compounds

References

Japanese

Shinjitai

蛮

Kyūjitai

蠻

Kanji

蠻

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 蛮)

  1. barbarian

Readings

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 蠻 (MC maen).

Historical Readings
Dongguk Jeongun Reading
Dongguk Jeongun, 1448 만 (Yale: màn)
Middle Korean
Text Eumhun
Gloss (hun) Reading
Hunmong Jahoe, 1527 되〯 (Yale: twǒy) 만 (Yale: màn)

Pronunciation

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

蠻 (eumhun 오랑캐 만 (orangkae man))

  1. Hanja form? of 만 (“barbarian”).

Compounds

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

蠻: Hán Nôm readings: man, mán, mơn

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