萬
See also: 万
Contents
TranslingualEdit
Han characterEdit
萬 (radical 140 艸+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿田中月 (TWLB), four-corner 44427, composition ⿱艹禺)
Derived charactersEdit
ReferencesEdit
- KangXi: page 1042, character 33
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31339
- Dae Jaweon: page 1501, character 6
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3247, character 8
- Unihan data for U+842C
ChineseEdit
| trad. | 萬 | |
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| simp. | 万 | |
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Glyph originEdit
| Historical forms of the character 萬
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This character has lost its original meaning of “scorpion”. The derivative 蠆 (OC *m̥ʰraːds) refers to the original word.
EtymologyEdit
Three roots can perhaps be distinguished:
- “Scorpion”: See 蠆 (OC *m̥ʰraːds);
- “Religious dance; sorcery”: Perhaps from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-man (“medicine”). Compare Tibetan སྨན (sman, “medicine; she-demons worshipped by common folk”), Burmese မန်း (man:, “utter mystic words to heal or ward off evil”);
- “Ten thousand”: Schuessler (2007) considers the etymology of this sense Sino-Tibetan, and compares it with Tibetan འབུམ ('bum, “hundred thousand; complete; entire; multifarious”). Similar words are found in branches of Altaic and Tocharian; here they are treated as very old loanwords from Chinese, per Pulleyblank (apud Clauson, 1972), Beckwith (2009), Adams (2013) and Tremblay (2005).
PronunciationEdit
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): maan6
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): van
- Min Dong (BUC): uâng
- Min Nan
- Wu (Wiktionary): me (T3); ve (T3)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄨㄢˋ
- Wade-Giles: wan4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wann
- IPA (key): /u̯a̠n⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: maan6
- Yale: maahn
- Cantonese Pinyin: maan6
- IPA (key): /mɑːn²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: van
- Hakka Romanization System: van
- Hagfa Pinyim: van4
- IPA: /van⁵⁵/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: uâng
- IPA (key): /uɑŋ²⁴²/
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bān
- Tâi-lô: bān
- Phofsit Daibuun: ban
- IPA (Taipei): /ban³³/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /ban²²/
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: bhuêng7 / bhuang7
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: buēng / buāng
- IPA (key): /bueŋ¹¹/, /buaŋ¹¹/
- Note: bhuêng7 - Chaozhou; bhuang7 - Shantou.
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: me (T3); ve (T3)
- IPA (key): /mᴇ²³/, /v̻ᴇ²³/
- Note: 3me - colloquial (only in 萬子); 3ve - literary ("ten thousand", etc.).
- (Shanghainese)
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 萬 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 明 (4) |
| Final (韻) | 元 (66) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 無販切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/mʉɐnH/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/mʷiɐnH/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/miuɐnH/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/muanH/ |
| Li Rong |
/miuɐnH/ |
| Wang Li |
/mĭwɐnH/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/mi̯wɐnH/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
wàn |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 萬 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
wàn |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ mjonH › |
| Old Chinese |
/*C.ma[n]-s/ |
| English | 10000 |
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; |
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| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 萬 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 12633 |
| Phonetic component |
萬 |
| Rime group |
元 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
万 |
| Old Chinese |
/*mlans/ |
DefinitionsEdit
萬
- † Original form of 蠆／虿 (chài, “scorpion”).
- (historical) A ritual dance in ancient China.
- ten thousand
- (figuratively) a great number
- innumerable; numerous
- very; extremely; absolutely
- A surname.
See alsoEdit
| Chinese numbers | ||||||||||||||||
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| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 102 | 103 | 104 | 108 | 1012 | |
| Cardinal | 〇 | 一 | 二 | 三 | 四 | 五 | 六 | 七 | 八 | 九 | 十 | 百 | 千 | 萬 万 |
億 亿 |
兆 |
| Financial | 零 | 壹 | 貳 贰 |
參 叁 |
肆 | 伍 | 陸 陆 |
柒 | 捌 | 玖 | 拾 | 佰 | 仟 | 萬 万 |
億 亿 |
兆 |
CompoundsEdit
Derived terms from 萬
DescendantsEdit
- → Altaic:
- → Chinese: 頭曼 (OC *doː moːn, “Touman, the first leader (chanyu) of the Xiongnu”)
- Proto-Turkic: *Tümen (“ten thousand; an infinitely large number”)
- Turkish: tümen (“ten thousand”)
- Middle Mongolian: ᠲᠦᠮᠡᠨ (tümen, “ten thousand”)
- Tungusic:
- Korean: 즈믄 (jeumeun, “(obsolete) thousand”)
- Japanese: 千 (chi, “thousand”)
- → Tocharian:
- → Japanese: 萬 (man), 萬 (ban, “ten thousand”)
- → English: banzai (“Japanese battle cry; cry of enthusiasm”)
- → Korean: 만 (萬, man, “ten thousand”)
- → Vietnamese: muôn (“ten thousand; all, many”)
- → Vietnamese: vạn (萬, "ten thousand; myriad")
- → Khmer: ម៉ឺន (mœn), ហ្មឺន (mœn, “ten thousand; official rank”)
- → Shan: မိုၼ်ႇ (“ten thousand”)
- → Lao: ໝື່ນ (mư̄n), ຫມື່ນ (mư̄n, “ten thousand; official rank”)
- → Thai: หมื่น (mʉ̀ʉn, “ten thousand; official rank”)
JapaneseEdit
KanjiEdit
萬
(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 万)
ReadingsEdit
ReferencesEdit
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- Source: EDICT and KANJIDIC files licensed by the Electronic Dictionaries Research Group.
KoreanEdit
HanjaEdit
- Sound (hangeul): 만 (McCune-Reischauer: man, Yale: man)
- Name (hangeul): 만 (revised: man, McCune-Reischauer: man, Yale: man)
NounEdit
- Hanja form? of 만, “ten thousand”.