卍

See also: 卐, ֍, and ֎

卍 U+534D, 卍 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-534D ← 卌 [U+534C] CJK Unified Ideographs 华 → [U+534E]

࿖ U+0FD6, ࿖ LEFT-FACING SVASTI SIGN ← ࿕ [U+0FD5] Tibetan ࿗ → [U+0FD7]

Translingual

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

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wàn (wan⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): maan⁶
• Eastern Min (BUC): uâng
• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁶ve

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wàn
    • Wade–Giles: wan⁴
    • Yale: wàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wann
    • Palladius: вань (vanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wän⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: maan⁶
    • Yale: maahn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: maan⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: man⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /maːn²²/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: uâng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /uɑŋ²⁴²/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ⁶ve
    • MiniDict: ve^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³ve
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ve²³/

Definitions

卍

1. swastika

Derived terms

• 卍字 (wànzì)
• 卍字巾
• 卍果

 

See also

• 卐 (wàn)

Japanese

Kanji

卍

(uncommon “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)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
卍
まんじ Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

Alternative spellings
卍字 万字 卐

From the on'yomi readings of 卍字 or 万字.

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

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) まんじ [màńjí] (Heiban – [0])
• (Tokyo) ま​んじ [máꜜǹjì] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [mã̠ɲ̟d͡ʑi]

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

• 卍(まんじ)巴(ともえ) (manjitomoe)
• 卍(まんじ)崩(くず)し組(く)み子(こ) (manjikuzushikumiko)
• まじ卍(まんじ) (majimanji)

See also

• 鉤(かぎ)十(じゅう)字(じ) (kagijūji)
• ハーケンクロイツ (hākenkuroitsu)
• 卐

References

• 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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