嫚

嫚 U+5ADA, 嫚 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5ADA ← 嫙 [U+5AD9] CJK Unified Ideographs 嫛 → [U+5ADB]

Translingual

Han character

嫚 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 女日田水 (VAWE), four-corner 4644₇, composition ⿰女曼)

1. despise, insult, scorn
2. be rude, affront

Derived characters

• 𬞽

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 269, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6644
• Dae Jaweon: page 537, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1077, character 4
• Unihan data for U+5ADA

Chinese

trad.		嫚
simp. #		嫚

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (曼) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
獌	*mroːn, *moːns, *mons
鬘	*mroːn
謾	*mroːn, *mroːns, *mon, *moːn, *moːns
慢	*mroːns
嫚	*mroːns
縵	*mroːns, *moːns
曼	*moːn, *mons
饅	*moːn
蔓	*moːn, *mons
鰻	*moːn, *mons
墁	*moːn, *moːns
鏝	*moːn, *moːns
槾	*moːn
漫	*moːns
幔	*moːns
蟃	*mons

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): màn (man⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): maan⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: màn
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: màn
    • Wade–Giles: man⁴
    • Yale: màn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mann
    • Palladius: мань (manʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /män⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: maan⁶
    • Yale: maahn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: maan⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: man⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /maːn²²/

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• Middle Chinese: maenH

Rime
Character	嫚
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	刪 (69)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	謨晏切
Baxter	maenH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mˠanH/
Pan Wuyun	/mᵚanH/
Shao Rongfen	/mɐnH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/maɨnH/
Li Rong	/manH/
Wang Li	/manH/
Bernard Karlgren	/manH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	màn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	maan6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*mroːns/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	嫚
Reading #	1/1
No.	8736
Phonetic component	曼
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	慢
Old Chinese	/*mroːns/

Definitions

嫚

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Compounds

• 嫚嫚
• 嫚罵／嫚骂 (mànmà)
• 詆嫚／诋嫚

 

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mān (man¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄢ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mān
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: man
    • Wade–Giles: man¹
    • Yale: mān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mhan
    • Palladius: мань (manʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /män⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mānr
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄢㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: manr
    • Wade–Giles: man¹-ʼrh
    • Yale: mānr
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mhal
    • Palladius: маньр (manʹr)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɑɻ⁵⁵/

Definitions

嫚

1. (dialect) girl

References

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B00697

Japanese

Kanji

嫚

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. scorn
2. despise
3. be rude
4. affront

Readings

• On (unclassified): ばん (ban); まん (man); べん (ben); めん (men); えん (en)
• Kun: あなどる (anadoru); けがす (kegasu); おこたる (okotaru); おごる (ogoru)

Korean

Hanja

嫚 (eum 만 (man))

1. despise
2. belittle
3. make dirty
4. beautiful (원)

Vietnamese

Han character

嫚: Hán Nôm readings: mạn

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References

• Nom Foundation