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曼

曼

Translingual

Han character

曼 (radical 73 曰+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 日田中水 (AWLE), four-corner 60407, composition ⿳日罒又)

  1. long, extended, vast
  2. beautiful

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 503, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14298
  • Dae Jaweon: page 876, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 399, character 15
  • Unihan data for U+66FC

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 曼

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

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 曼 曼
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 明 (4) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 桓 (62) 元 (66)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division (等) I III
Fanqie 母官切 無販切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /muɑn/ /mʉɐnH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /mʷɑn/ /mʷiɐnH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /muɑn/ /miuɐnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /mwan/ /muanH/
Li
Rong		 /muɑn/ /miuɐnH/
Wang
Li		 /muɑn/ /mĭwɐnH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /muɑn/ /mi̯wɐnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 mán wàn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 曼 曼
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 màn màn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ manH › ‹ mjonH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*mˤa[n]-s/ /*ma[n]-s/
English distant extended, long

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 曼 曼
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 8740 8756
Phonetic
component		 曼 曼
Rime
group		 元 元
Rime
subdivision		 3 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 瞞 万
Old
Chinese		 /*moːn/ /*mons/
Notes 說文冒聲

Adjective

曼

  1. handsome

Japanese

Kanji

曼

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

曼 • ‎(man) (hangeul 만, revised man, McCune-Reischauer man, Yale man)

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Vietnamese

Han character

曼 (man, mạn)

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