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Translingual
Han character
漫 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 水日田水 (EAWE), four-corner 36147, composition ⿰氵曼)
Derived characters
References
- Kangxi Dictionary: page 646, character 32
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18166
- Dae Jaweon: page 1056, character 10
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1721, character 10
- Unihan data for U+6F2B
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 *moːns) : semantic 氵 + phonetic 曼 (OC *moːn, *mons) – Water overflowing. Note that 曼 (màn) means “vast, extended”, so connotations of “too much water, overflow”.
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Note: maan4 - in
漫漫 (uncommon).
Note:
- bhuêng6 - Chaozhou;
- bhuang6 - Shantou, Chenghai;
- muang6 - Chaoyang, Jieyang, Raoping;
- mua7 - vernacular.
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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漫
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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màn
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ manH ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*mˁa-s/
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| English
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wide, limitless
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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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漫
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| Reading #
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1/1
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| No.
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8748
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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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縵
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Old
Chinese
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/*moːns/
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Definitions
漫
- to overflow (of water); to brim over; to flood
- to be everywhere
- 漫天 ― màntiān ― to fill the whole sky
- long; endless
- free; casual; unrestrained
- 漫談／漫谈 ― màntán ― to chat freely
- 漫無目的／漫无目的 ― mànwúmùde ― aimless
- do not
- 漫說／漫说 ― mànshuō ― not to mention
Compounds
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Definitions
漫
- Alternative form of 鏝／镘 (màn, “side of a coin without written characters”)
References
- 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “漫”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 151.
Japanese
Kanji
漫
(Jōyō kanji)
- Aimlessly, at random, unintentional; ridiculous, caricatural.
Readings
Compounds
Korean
Hanja
漫 (eumhun 질펀할 만 (jilpeonhal man))
- hanja form? of 만 (“overflow of water”)
- hanja form? of 만 (“spreading”)
Vietnamese
Han character
漫: Hán Việt readings: mạn (莫半切)[1][2], man[2][3]
漫: Nôm readings: mặn[1][2][3][4][5], mạn[2][3][4], mướn[1][2], mượn[1][2], man[1][3], mẳn[4][5], mớn[4][5], mằn[3], máng[3]
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