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, 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

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		慢

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): màn (man⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): maan⁶
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): man
• Min Nan (POJ): bān
• Wu (WT Romanisation): me (T3)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: màn
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄢˋ
    • Wade-Giles: man⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mann
    • IPA ^(key): /ma̠n⁵¹/

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: maan⁶
    • Yale: maahn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: maan⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /mɑːn²²/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: man
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /man⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bān
    • Tâi-lô: bān
    • IPA (Taipei): /ban³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ban²²/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • WT Romanisation: me (T3)
    • IPA ^(key): /mᴇ²³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (慢, reconstructed)
Character (慢), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 明 (4) Final: 刪 Division: II			Openness: Open Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 謨晏切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/mɣanH/	/manH/	/manH/	/mɯanH/	/maɨnH/	/manH/	/mɐnH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (慢, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
慢								màn								‹ mænH ›								/*mˤra[n]-s/								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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
慢					8735					曼					元					3					慢					/*mroːns/

Definitions

慢

1. slow; sluggish
2. slowly, leisurely

Antonyms

• 快 (kuài)

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Japanese

Kanji

慢

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. lazy

Readings

• Goon: めん (men)
• Kan’on: ばん (ban)
• Kan’yōon: 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 (man) (hangeul 만, McCune-Reischauer man, Yale man)

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Vietnamese

Han character

慢 (mạn, mắn)

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