Wiktionary

蠻

See also: 蛮
蠻 U+883B, 蠻
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-883B
← 蠺
[U+883A] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 蠼 →
[U+883C]

TranslingualEdit

Han characterEdit

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

Derived charactersEdit

ReferencesEdit

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

ChineseEdit

trad. 蠻
simp. 蛮
alternative forms 滿／满 “quite”

Glyph originEdit

Characters in the same phonetic series (䜌) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
蠻 *mroːn
矕 *mroːnʔ
變 *prons
鸞 *b·roːn
巒 *b·roːn
灤 *b·roːn
欒 *b·roːn
鑾 *b·roːn
臠 *b·roːn, *b·ronʔ
羉 *b·roːn
䜌 *b·roːn, *b·ron, *b·rons
灓 *b·roːn, *b·roːns, *b·rons
圝 *b·roːn
曫 *b·roːn
孿 *smroːns, *smrons
彎 *qroːn
灣 *qroːn
攣 *b·ron
孌 *b·ronʔ, *b·rons
戀 *b·rons
㪻 *pʰlons, *klons

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *mroːn): phonetic 䜌 (OC *b·roːn, *b·ron, *b·rons) + semantic 虫 (“snake”).

EtymologyEdit

Possibly related to Burmese မြန်မာ (mranma, “Myanmar; Burma; Burmese”), Tibetan བྲན (bran, “servant, slave”). Also compare with မင်း from Burmese အလွန်အမင်း (a.lwan-a.mang:, “very, extremely”).

PronunciationEdit

Note:
  • 1'me - “very; quite”.
  • Xiang
    • Rime
    Character 蠻
    Reading # 1/1
    Initial (聲) 明 (4)
    Final (韻) 刪 (69)
    Tone (調) Level (Ø)
    Openness (開合) Open
    Division (等) II
    Fanqie 莫還切
    Baxter maen
    Reconstructions
    Zhengzhang
    Shangfang         		/mˠan/
    Pan
    Wuyun         		/mᵚan/
    Shao
    Rongfen         		/mɐn/
    Edwin
    Pulleyblank         		/maɨn/
    Li
    Rong         		/man/
    Wang
    Li         		/man/
    Bernard
    Karlgren         		/man/
    Expected
    Mandarin
    Reflex         		mán
    Expected
    Cantonese
    Reflex         		maan4
    Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
    Character 蠻
    Reading # 1/1
    Modern
    Beijing
    (Pinyin)         		mán
    Middle
    Chinese         		‹ maen ›
    Old
    Chinese         		/*mˁro[n]/
    English southern foreigner

    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 蠻
    Reading # 1/1
    No. 8610
    Phonetic
    component
    Rime
    group         		元
    Rime
    subdivision         		3
    Corresponding
    MC rime         		蠻
    Old
    Chinese         		/*mroːn/
    Notes 金文作

    DefinitionsEdit

    蠻

    1. (historical, derogatory) A collective name for all the non-Han ethnic groups in modern-day southern China.
      南蠻／南蛮  ―  nánmán  ―  the Southern barbarians
    2. barbarous; savage; uncivilised
    3. rough; rude; unreasonable
      野蠻／野蛮  ―  yěmán  ―  uncivilised; rude and unreasonable
    4. rash; hot-headed
    5. valiantly; uncouthly; vulgarly
      胡攪蠻纏／胡搅蛮缠  ―  hújiǎománchán  ―  to pester somebody endlessly
    6. (dialectal, colloquial) very; quite
      蠻好吃／蛮好吃  ―  mán hǎochī  ―  pretty tasty
      蠻好食／蛮好食 [Waxiang]  ―  [man¹³ xau²⁵ ʑiəɯ¹³] [IPA]  ―  pretty tasty
      儂好𠲎？我蠻好。 [Shanghainese, trad.]
      侬好𠲎？我蛮好。 [Shanghainese, simp.]
      [nʊŋ³³  hɔ³⁴ v̥a̱ ŋv̩ʷ²³ ʔme̞⁵³ hɔ³⁴] [IPA]
      How are you? I'm very well.

    QuotationsEdit

    SynonymsEdit

    • (rash):
    • (very):
    Dialectal synonyms of 很 (“very”) [map]
    Variety Location Words
    Classical Chinese 甚, 孔
    Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 很, 非常, 十分
    Mandarin Beijing 挺, 很, 倍兒, 怪
    Taiwan 很, 好, 非常, 超, 蠻, 超級
    Tianjin 挺, 很, 傻, 老, 倍兒, 齁兒
    Jinan 挺, 楞
    Xi'an 很
    Wuhan 蠻, 很
    Chengdu 很, 好
    Chongqing 很
    Yangzhou 蠻, 稀, 很
    Hefei 很
    Malaysia 很
    Singapore 很, 蠻, 非常
    Cantonese Guangzhou 好, 非常之
    Hong Kong 好, 非常, 非常之, 超, 勁, 十分之
    Zhongshan (Shiqi) 好
    Taishan 好, 十分之
    Yangjiang 好
    Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu) 好
    Singapore (Guangfu) 好, 非常之, 非常
    Gan Nanchang 蠻
    Hakka Meixian 好, 刮, 已, 還, 異, 還 exclamation
    Huidong (Daling) 好
    Wuhua (Meilin) 好
    Shaoguan (Qujiang) 頂
    Lianshan (Xiaosanjiang) 好
    Changting 野
    Wuping (Pingyu) 已, 刮
    Liancheng 樣
    Ninghua 好
    Ruijin 蠻
    Shicheng 蠻
    Shangyou (Shexi) 蠻
    Miaoli (N. Sixian) 當, 已, 還
    Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) 蓋, 盡, 還
    Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) 當, 盡, 已, 還
    Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) 當, 已, 還
    Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) 當, 已, 還
    Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) 足, 真, 實在
    Hong Kong 好
    Sabah (Bao'an) 好
    Kuching (Hepo) 很
    Singapore (Dabu) 好
    Jin Taiyuan 很, 挺
    Min Bei Jian'ou 盡
    Min Dong Fuzhou 野, 真
    Singapore (Fuqing) 真
    Sitiawan (Gutian) 真
    Min Nan Xiamen 真, 野, 誠, 有夠, 萬代, 死人, 非常, 真正
    Xiamen (Tong'an) 真
    Quanzhou 真, 野, 誠, 有夠, 萬代, 死人
    Jinjiang 野
    Zhangzhou 盡, 蓋, 足, 足範, 有夠, 出奇, 極死, 見死, 死了了, 死人
    Zhao'an 很, 真, 死絕, 好, 非常
    Dongshan 真, 非常
    Taipei 真, 誠
    New Taipei (Sanxia) 真, 誠
    Kaohsiung 有夠, 足, 真, 誠, 蓋
    Yilan 有夠, 足, 誠, 盡
    Changhua (Lukang) 真, 誠
    Taichung 誠, 蓋, 足
    Tainan 有夠, 足, 真, 誠, 蓋
    Hsinchu 真, 誠
    Kinmen 足, 誠
    Penghu (Magong) 真, 誠
    Penang (Hokkien) 真, 誠, 真正
    Singapore (Hokkien) 真, 死爸, 真正, 誠, 足, 有夠
    Manila (Hokkien) 野, 真, 萬代, 真正
    Chaozhou 過, 好, 非常, 死爸
    Shantou 過, 鐵, 好, 很, 死爸, 死絕
    Shantou (Chenghai) 好, 死絕
    Shantou (Chaoyang) 好, 非常
    Jieyang 過, 好, 死爸, 死絕
    Bangkok (Teochew) 好
    Johor Bahru (Teochew) 好
    Singapore (Teochew) 真, 死爸, 非常
    Wenchang 極, 但顧, 真
    Haikou 但顧
    Qionghai 但顧, 真
    Singapore (Hainanese) 但顧, 真
    Zhongshan Min Shaxi (Longdu) 好, 蠻
    Wu Shanghai 蠻, 老, 邪氣, 老老, 瞎, 絕, 十分, 十二萬分, 非常, 非常之, 畢, 畢畢, 來得, 來得個, 煞, 交關, 十二分 rare, 窮 dated, 野 dated, 邪 dated
    Suzhou 蠻, 窮
    Hangzhou 蠻, 交關, 木佬佬, 冒
    Ningbo 交關, 蠻, 堪, 𠊉好, 𠊉派, 甮派, 出格, 木牢牢 rare, 猛 rare
    Zhoushan 交關, 蠻, 猛, 堪, 出格, 木牢牢 rare
    Wenzhou 蠻, 蒙, 顯
    Xiang Changsha 很, 蠻
    Shuangfeng 蠻

    CompoundsEdit

    ReferencesEdit

    JapaneseEdit

    Shinjitai

    		蛮

    Kyūjitai

    		蠻

    KanjiEdit

    蠻

    (uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 蛮)

    1. barbarian

    ReadingsEdit

    KoreanEdit

    EtymologyEdit

    From Middle Chinese 蠻 (MC mˠan).

    Historical Readings
    Dongguk Jeongun Reading
    Dongguk Jeongun, 1448 만 (Yale: màn)
    Middle Korean
    Text Eumhun
    Gloss (hun) Reading
    Hunmong Jahoe, 1527[2] 되〯 (Yale: twǒy) 만 (Yale: màn)

    PronunciationEdit

    HanjaEdit

    Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

    Wikisource

    蠻 (eumhun 오랑캐 만 (orangkae man))

    1. Hanja form? of 만 (“barbarian”).

    CompoundsEdit

    Compounds

    ReferencesEdit

    • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [3]

    VietnameseEdit

    Han characterEdit

    蠻: Hán Nôm readings: man, mán, mơn

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