蔓

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蔓 U+8513, 蔓
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8513
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 蔔 →

Translingual

Han character

蔓 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 廿日田水 (TAWE), four-corner 44407, composition ⿱艹曼)

Derived characters

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

trad. 蔓
simp. # 蔓

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (曼) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
獌 *mroːn, *moːns, *mons
鬘 *mroːn
謾 *mroːn, *mroːns, *mon, *moːn, *moːns
慢 *mroːns
嫚 *mroːns
縵 *mroːns, *moːns
曼 *moːn, *mons
饅 *moːn
蔓 *moːn, *mons
鰻 *moːn, *mons
墁 *moːn, *moːns
鏝 *moːn, *moːns
槾 *moːn
漫 *moːns
幔 *moːns
蟃 *mons

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *moːn, *mons) : semantic 艸 (“grass”) + phonetic 曼 (OC *moːn, *mons).

Pronunciation 1

Note: bān/boān - literary.
Rime
Character 蔓
Reading # 2/2
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 元 (66)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 無販切
Baxter mjonH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/mʉɐnH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/mʷiɐnH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/miuɐnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/muanH/
Li
Rong 		/miuɐnH/
Wang
Li 		/mĭwɐnH/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/mi̯wɐnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		wàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		maan6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 蔓
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		wàn
Middle
Chinese 		‹ mjonH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*C.ma-s/
English creep; creeping plant

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 蔓
Reading # 2/2
No. 8755
Phonetic
component 		曼
Rime
group 		元
Rime
subdivision 		3
Corresponding
MC rime 		万
Old
Chinese 		/*mons/

Definitions

蔓

  1. vine; creeper
  2. to spread; to extend
  3. a surname

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Rime
Character 蔓
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 桓 (62)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 母官切
Baxter man
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/muɑn/
Pan
Wuyun 		/mʷɑn/
Shao
Rongfen 		/muɑn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/mwan/
Li
Rong 		/muɑn/
Wang
Li 		/muɑn/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/muɑn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		mán
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		mun4
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 蔓
Reading # 1/2
No. 8743
Phonetic
component 		曼
Rime
group 		元
Rime
subdivision 		3
Corresponding
MC rime 		瞞
Old
Chinese 		/*moːn/

Definitions

蔓

  1. Only used in 蔓菁 (mánjing, “turnip”).

Japanese

Kanji

蔓

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

  1. vine

Readings

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
蔓
つる
Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

Noun

蔓(つる) • (tsuru) 

  1. vine
  2. intermediary
  3. financial supporter

Derived terms

Korean

Hanja

蔓 • (man) (hangeul 만, revised man, McCune–Reischauer man, Yale man)

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Vietnamese

Han character

蔓 (mạn, mơn)

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