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慢

慢

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

慢 (radical 61 心+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 心日田水 (PAWE), four-corner 96047, composition ⿰忄曼)

References

  • KangXi: page 399, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11110
  • Dae Jaweon: page 738, character 29
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2346, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+6162

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 慢

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *mroːns) : semantic 忄 ‎(“heart”) + phonetic 曼 ‎(OC *moːn, *mons) – a character trait or behavior (of the heart), sluggish. Note that 曼 also means “long, extended”, so connotations of “take a long time, leisurely, sluggish”.

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 慢
Mandarin Beijing /man⁵¹/
Harbin /man⁵³/
Tianjin /man⁵³/
Jinan /mã²¹/
Qingdao /mã⁴²/
Zhengzhou /man³¹²/
Xi'an /mã⁴⁴/
Xining /mã²¹³/
Yinchuan /man¹³/
Lanzhou /mɛ̃n¹³/
Ürümqi /man²¹³/
Wuhan /man³⁵/
Chengdu /man¹³/
Guiyang /man²¹³/
Kunming /mã̠²¹²/
Nanjing /maŋ⁴⁴/
Hefei /mæ̃⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /mæ̃⁴⁵/
Pingyao /mɑŋ³⁵/
Hohhot /mæ̃⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /me²³/
Suzhou /me̞³¹/
Hangzhou /mẽ̞¹³/
Wenzhou /ma²²/
Hui Shexian /mɛ²²/
Tunxi /muːə¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /man⁵⁵/
/man¹¹/
Xiangtan /man²¹/
Gan Nanchang /man²¹/
Hakka Meixian /man⁵³/
Taoyuan /mɑn⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /man²²/
Nanning /man²²/
Hong Kong /man²²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /ban²²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /maiŋ²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /maiŋ⁴⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /maŋ³¹/
Haikou (Min Nan) /maŋ²³/
Rime
Character 慢
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
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
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 慢
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 màn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ mænH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*mˤra[n]-s/
English disrespectful

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 慢
Reading # 1/1
No. 8735
Phonetic
component		 曼
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 慢
Old
Chinese		 /*mroːns/

Definitions

慢

  1. slow; sluggish
  2. slowly, leisurely

Antonyms

Japanese

Kanji

慢

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. lazy

Readings

Korean

Hanja

慢 • ‎(man) (hangeul 만, McCune-Reischauer man, Yale man)

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Vietnamese

Han character

慢 (mạn, mắn)

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