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蔓

蔓

Translingual

Han character

蔓 (radical 140 艸+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 廿日田水 (TAWE), four-corner 44407)

  1. creeping plants, tendrils, vines

References

  • KangXi: page 1054, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31784
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1516, character 29
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3278, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+8513

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 蔓

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 蔓 蔓
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 蔓
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 wàn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ mjonH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*C.ma[n]-s/
English creep; creeping plant

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 蔓 蔓
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 8743 8755
Phonetic
component		 曼 曼
Rime
group		 元 元
Rime
subdivision		 3 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 瞞 万
Old
Chinese		 /*moːn/ /*mons/

Definitions

蔓

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Japanese

Noun

蔓 ‎(hiragana つる, romaji tsuru)

  1. vine

Kanji

蔓

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

蔓 (mạn, mơn)

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