慢

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 忄 (“heart”) + phonetic 曼 – 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”.

Han character

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

1. slow(ly), leisurely, sluggish

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

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Cantonese

Hanzi

慢 (Yale maan6)

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Japanese

Kanji

慢 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: まん (man)
• Kun: おこたる (okotaru), あなどる (anadoru), おごる (ogoru)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

慢 (pinyin màn (man4), Wade-Giles man⁴)

Antonyms

• 快 (kuài)

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Vietnamese

Han character

慢 (mạn, mắn)