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Translingual

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Etymology

Simplified from  ( → ).

In current form, Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic  (fish) + phonetic  – a kind of fish. Note that 曼 has meaning of “long”, hence connotations of “a long fish, an eel”.

Han character

(radical 195 +11, 19 strokes, cangjie input 弓一日田水 (NMAWE))

  1. eel

References


Cantonese

Hanzi

(traditional , Yale maan4)


Mandarin

Hanzi

(traditional , pinyin mán (man2), Wade-Giles man2)

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