漫

See also 澷

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 氵 + phonetic 曼 – water overflowing. Note that 曼 means “vast, extended”, so connotations of “too much water, overflow”.

Han character

漫 (radical 85 水+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 水日田水 (EAWE), four-corner 3614₇, composition ⿰氵曼)

1. overflow of water
2. spreading

Related characters

• 澷

References

• KangXi: page 646, character 32
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18166
• Dae Jaweon: page 1056, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1721, character 10
• Unihan data for U+6F2B

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Cantonese

Hanzi

漫 (Yale maan6)

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Japanese

Kanji

漫 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: まん (man)
• Kun: みだり (midari), みだりに (midarini), そぞろに (sozoroni)

Compounds

• 漫画 (まんが, manga, “comics”)
• 漫言 (まんげん, mangen)
• 漫語 (まんご, mango)
• 漫才 (まんざい, manzai, “a style of double act stand-up comedy”)
• 漫然 (まんぜん, manzen)
• 漫談 (まんだん, mandan)
• 漫読 (まんどく, mandoku)
• 漫罵 (まんば, manba)
• 漫筆 (まんぴつ, manpitsu)
• 漫評 (まんぴょう, manpyou)
• 漫歩 (まんぽ, manpo)
• 漫々, 漫漫 (まんまん, manman)
• 漫遊 (まんゆう, man'yu)
• 漫録 (まんろく, manroku)

• 散漫 (さんまん, sanman)
• 冗漫 (じょうまん, jouman)
• 瀰漫 (びまん, biman)
• 放漫 (ほうまん, houman)
• 爛漫, 瀾漫 (らんまん, ranman)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

漫 (man, mặn, mẳn, mạn, mớn, máng, mằn)