蠻

See also 蛮

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 䜌 + semantic 虫 (“snake”)

南蠻 is a kind of snake.

Han character

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

1. barbarians
2. barbarous, savage

References

• KangXi: page 1104, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33914
• Dae Jaweon: page 1567, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2909, character 21
• Unihan data for U+883B

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Cantonese

Hanzi

蠻 (simplified 蛮, Yale maan4)

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Japanese

Kanji

蠻

Readings

• On: ばん (ban)
• Kun: えびす (ebisu)

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Korean

Hanja

蠻 (hangeul 만, revised man, McCune-Reischauer man, Yale man)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

蠻 (simplified 蛮, pinyin mán (man2), Wade-Giles man²)

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Vietnamese

蠻 (man, mán, mơn)