Wiktionary

男

See also: 勇
男 U+7537, 男
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7537
← 甶
[U+7536] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 甸 →
[U+7538]
㊚ U+329A, ㊚
CIRCLED IDEOGRAPH MALE
← ㊙
[U+3299] 		Enclosed CJK Letters and Months ㊛ →
[U+329B]

Translingual edit

Stroke order
 
Stroke order (Japan)
 

Han character edit

男 (Kangxi radical 102, 田+2, 7 strokes, cangjie input 田大尸 (WKS), four-corner 60427, composition ⿱田力)

Derived characters edit

References edit

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 759, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21730
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1169, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2529, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+7537

Chinese edit

simp. and trad.
 男
alternative forms 㽖
侽

Glyph origin edit

Historical forms of the character 男
Shang Western Zhou Spring and Autumn Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Bronze inscriptions Chu slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
           

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : 田 (“field”) + 力 (“strength”) – man providing the strength for agricultural and/or other kinds of (physical) labour on a field.

Etymology edit

Probably an area word. Compare Proto-Kiranti *nam (“man”), Proto-Monic *k()ɲoom (“young child”), Proto-Wa *h/ʔn[o]m (“young man”), Thai หนุ่ม (nùm, “young man; young”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation edit

Note:
  • lam5 - Chaozhou;
  • nam5 - Shantou.
Rime
Character 男
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 泥 (8)
Final (韻) 覃 (159)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 那含切
Baxter nom
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/nʌm/
Pan
Wuyun 		/nəm/
Shao
Rongfen 		/nɒm/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/nəm/
Li
Rong 		/nᴀm/
Wang
Li 		/nɒm/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/năm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		nán
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		naam4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 男
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		nán
Middle
Chinese 		‹ nom ›
Old
Chinese 		/*nˁ[ə]m/
English man, male

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 男
Reading # 1/1
No. 9354
Phonetic
component 		男
Rime
group 		侵
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		南
Old
Chinese 		/*nuːm/

Definitions edit

男

  1. man; (only of human in Standard Chinese) male
    男人  ―  nánrén  ―  man
    男孩  ―  nánhái  ―  boy
    Coordinate term: 女
  2. son
    長男／长男  ―  zhǎngnán  ―  eldest son
  3. baron, lowest of the five ranks of Chinese aristocracy (五等爵位) under the Zhou dynasty
  4. a surname

Synonyms edit

  • 公 (gōng, “male (of animals)”)

Compounds edit

Descendants edit

Sino-Xenic (男):
  • → Japanese: 男(なん) (nan); 男(だん) (dan)
  • → Korean: 남(男) (nam)
  • → Vietnamese: nam (男)

References edit

Japanese edit

Kanji edit

男

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. man
  2. son
  3. baron

Readings edit

Compounds edit

Compounds

Etymology 1 edit

Kanji in this term
男
おとこ
Grade: 1
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
漢 (manga slang)

⟨woto2ko1⟩ → */wotəkʷo/ → /wotoko/ → /otoko/

From Old Japanese.

Derived from おと (oto, “young?”, cognate with Old Japanese 復つ (wotu → otsu, “to become young again”)) +‎ 子 (ko, “child”).

Compare 少女 (otome, “young woman”).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

男(おとこ) • (otoko) ←をとこ (wotoko)?

  1. a male person
    Antonym: 女 (onna)
  2. (specifically) a man, an adult male
    Antonym: 女 (onna)
  3. 男, 漢: (specifically) a manly man
  4. a male lover
    Synonyms: 愛人 (aijin), 情人 (jōjin, jōnin), 情夫 (jōfu)
  5. a manservant
    Synonym: 下男 (genan)
  6. a husband
    Synonym: 夫 (otto)
  7. (obsolete) an unmarried young man
  8. (colloquial) homosexuality
    Synonyms: 男色 (danshoku), 若道 (nyakudō)
Derived terms edit
Derived terms
Idioms edit
Idioms
Proverbs edit

Proper noun edit

男(おとこ) • (Otoko) ←をとこ (wotoko)?

  1. a surname

Etymology 2 edit

Kanji in this term
男
お
Grade: 1
kun’yomi

/wo/ → /o/

From Old Japanese.

Alternative forms edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

男(お) • (o) ←を (wo)?

  1. a man
    Antonym: 女 (me)
    • 711–712, Kojiki, (poem 5):
      ...那許曾波(なこそは)遠(を)迩伊麻世婆(にいませば)... [Man'yōgana]
      ...汝(な)こそはをにいませば... [Modern spelling]
      na koso wa o ni imaseba
      (please add an English translation of this example)
  2. a husband
    Synonym: 夫 (otto)
    Antonym: 女 (me)
  3. a male
    Antonym: 女, 牝, 雌 (me)
  4. something large, powerful, or otherwise masculine
Derived terms edit
Derived terms

Etymology 3 edit

Kanji in this term
男
おのこ
Grade: 1
irregular
Alternative spelling
男の子

Compound of 男 (o, “male”, see above) +‎ の (no, possessive particle) +‎ 子 (ko, “child”).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

男(おのこ) • (onoko) ←をのこ (wonoko)?

  1. a boy
Derived terms edit
Derived terms

Etymology 4 edit

Kanji in this term
男
なん
Grade: 1
goon

/nam/ → /namʉ/ → /naɴ/

From Middle Chinese 男 (MC nom).

The 呉音 (goon) reading, so likely the initial borrowing.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

男(なん) • (nan) 

  1. a man
    Synonym: 男性 (dansei)
  2. a son
    Synonyms: 倅 (segare), 息子 (musuko)
Derived terms edit

Etymology 5 edit

Kanji in this term
男
だん
Grade: 1
kan’on

/dam/ → /damʉ/ → /daɴ/

From Middle Chinese 男 (MC nom).

The 漢音 (kan'on) reading, so likely a later borrowing.

Noun edit

男(だん) • (dan) 

  1. a man
  2. a son
  3. a young man, especially one who reached adulthood
    Synonyms: 壮丁 (sōtei), 若者 (wakamono)
  4. (historical) a baron
    Synonym: 男爵 (danshaku)

Proper noun edit

男(だん) • (Dan) 

  1. a male given name

References edit

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN

Korean edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Chinese 男 (MC nom). Recorded as Middle Korean 남 (nam) (Yale: nam) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja edit

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

男 (eumhun 사내 남 (sanae nam))

  1. Hanja form? of 남 (“man”).

Compounds edit

Compounds

References edit

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [2]

Kunigami edit

Kanji edit

男

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Proto-Ryukyuan *weke + *-ga (“diminutive suffix”).

Noun edit

男(いけが) (ikhega) 

  1. man

Etymology 2 edit

From Proto-Ryukyuan *wenga.

Noun edit

男(うんが) (unga) 

  1. man

Oki-No-Erabu edit

Kanji edit

男

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings edit

Etymology edit

Kanji in this term
男
いぃんが
Grade: 1
Kanji in this term
男
ゐんが
Grade: 1

From Proto-Ryukyuan *wenga.

Noun edit

男(いぃんが) or 男(ゐんが) (yinga or inga) 

  1. man

References edit

Okinawan edit

Kanji edit

男

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings edit

Etymology 1 edit

Kanji in this term
男
ゐきが
Grade: 1
kun’yomi
Kanji in this term
男
ゆきが
Grade: 1
kun’yomi

From Proto-Ryukyuan *weke + *-ga (“diminutive suffix”).

Noun edit

男(ゐきが) or 男(ゆきが) (wikiga or yukiga) 

  1. man
Derived terms edit

Etymology 2 edit

Kanji in this term
男
をぅとぅく
Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Possibly from Japanese 男 (otoko, “man”).

Noun edit

男(うぅとぅく) (wutuku) 

  1. (literary) man

References edit

  • “ゐきが【男】” in JLect - Japonic Languages and Dialects Database Dictionary, 2019.

Vietnamese edit

Han character edit

男: Hán Việt readings: nam[1][2][3]
男: Nôm readings: nam[1][2]

  1. chữ Hán form of nam (“man; male”).

Derived terms edit

References edit

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Nguyễn (2014).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Nguyễn et al. (2009).
  3. ^ Trần (2004).

Yonaguni edit

Kanji edit

男

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Ryukyuan *wenga.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

男(びんが) (binga) 

  1. man

Yoron edit

Kanji edit

男

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Ryukyuan *weke + *-ga (“diminutive suffix”).

Noun edit

男(をぅいが) (uiga) 

  1. man
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