蠻

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

• 䂅 𢦈 𢺳(𪮳) 𥾃 𧖣 𧖦(𬠱) 𪈿

• 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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *mroːn) : phonetic 䜌 (OC *b·roːn, *b·ron, *b·rons) + semantic 虫 (“snake”).

Possibly related to Burmese မြန်မာ (mranma, “Myanmar; Burma; Burmese”), Tibetan བྲན (bran, “servant, slave”).

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. (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.

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:蠻.

• (rash):

• (very):

• “蠻”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 蛮)

1. barbarian

• Go-on: めん (men)
• Kan-on: ばん (ban)
• Kun: えびす (ebisu)

From Middle Chinese 蠻 (MC maen).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key):
• Phonetic hangul:

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

蠻

Wikisource

蠻 (eumhun 오랑캐 만 (orangkae man))

1. hanja form^? of 만 (“barbarian”)

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

蠻: Hán Nôm readings: man, mán, mơn

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