Wiktionary

瞞

See also: 瞒
瞞 U+779E, 瞞
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-779E
← 瞝
[U+779D] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 瞟 →
[U+779F]

Translingual edit

Traditional 瞞
Shinjitai
(extended) 		𥈞
Simplified 瞒

Han character edit

瞞 (Kangxi radical 109, 目+11, 16 strokes, cangjie input 月山廿中月 (BUTLB), four-corner 64027, composition ⿰目㒼)

Derived characters edit

References edit

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 816, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23649
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1229, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2509, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+779E

Chinese edit

trad. 瞞
simp. 瞒

Glyph origin edit

Characters in the same phonetic series (芇) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
芇 *men, *meːnʔ, *maːn
蹣 *boːn, *moːn
瞞 *moːn
顢 *moːn
樠 *moːn, *mon, *muːn
慲 *moːn
鬗 *moːn, *mons
滿 *moːnʔ
鏋 *moːnʔ
懣 *moːnʔ, *muːnʔ, *muːns
璊 *muːn

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *moːn) and ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : semantic 目 (“eye”) + phonetic 㒼 (, “to cover something carefully and tightly without a break”).

Pronunciation edit

Note:
  • boân - literary;
  • môa - vernacular.
Rime
Character 瞞
Reading # 1/1
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/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/muɑn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		mán
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		mun4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 瞞
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		mán
Middle
Chinese 		‹ man ›
Old
Chinese 		/*mˁ[o][r]/
English be deceived

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] 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 瞞
Reading # 1/1
No. 9033
Phonetic
component 		芇
Rime
group 		元
Rime
subdivision 		3
Corresponding
MC rime 		瞞
Old
Chinese 		/*moːn/
Notes 朱駿聲芇聲

Definitions edit

瞞

  1. to deceive; to lie; to conceal
    欺瞞／欺瞒  ―  qīmán  ―  to deceive, to dupe
    隱瞞／隐瞒  ―  yǐnmán  ―  to conceal; to hide; to cover up
    不瞞您說／不瞒您说  ―  bù mán nín shuō  ―  to tell you the truth
    原來你哋兩個拍咗拖兩年㗎啦？做咩瞞住我哋咁耐啊？ [Cantonese, trad.]
    原来你哋两个拍咗拖两年㗎啦？做咩瞒住我哋咁耐啊？ [Cantonese, simp.]
    jyun4 loi4 nei5 dei6 loeng5 go3 paak3 zo2 to1 loeng5 nin4 gaa4 laa4? zou6 me1 mun4 zyu6 ngo5 dei6 gam3 noi6 aa3? [Jyutping]
    You two have been dating for two years? How come you've been keeping that from us for so long?
  2. † eyes half-closed

Synonyms edit

  • (to deceive):

Compounds edit

References edit

Japanese edit

Kanji edit

瞞

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. deception

Readings edit

Korean edit

Hanja edit

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

  1. deceive
  2. lie
  3. eyes half-closed

Vietnamese edit

Han character edit

瞞: Hán Nôm readings: man

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