卍

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See also: 卐, ֍, and ֎
卍 U+534D, 卍
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-534D
← 卌
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 华 →
࿖ U+0FD6, ࿖
LEFT-FACING SVASTI SIGN
← ࿕
 		Tibetan ࿗ →

Translingual

Stroke order
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Han character

卍 (Kangxi radical 24, 十+4, 6 strokes, cangjie input 弓難 (NX), four-corner 12217, composition ⿻㇅⿳丨一丨 or ⿻⿱⿰一丨⿰丨一十)

  1. The left-facing swastika.

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 156, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2724
  • Dae Jaweon: page 356, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 51, character 15
  • Unihan data for U+534D

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 卍

Pronunciation

Definitions

卍

  1. swastika

Derived terms

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Japanese

Kanji

卍

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

  • Go-on: もん (mon)
  • Kan-on: ばん (ban)
  • Kan’yō-on: まん (man)
  • Kun: まんじ (manji, 卍)
 卍 on Japanese Wikipedia

Etymology

Kanji in this term
卍
まんじ
Hyōgai
kun'yomi
Alternative spellings
卍字
万字
卐

From the on'yomi readings of 卍字 or 万字.[1]

Sense 3, the youth slang usage, comes from the similarity of the word's pronunciation to マジ (maji, “seriously, for real”).

Pronunciation

Noun

卍(まんじ) • (manji) 

  1. swastika, especially a left-facing swastika
  2. (cartography) indicates Buddhist temples on maps
  3. (youth slang) awesome, hype

Derived terms

See also

References

  1. ^ 卍 on the Japanese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ja
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.

Korean

Hanja

卍 (eum 만 (man))

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Vietnamese

Han character

卍: Hán Nôm readings: vạn

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