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, spread all over, paste, separate, blemish
2. free, unrestrained, vast, vague

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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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		漫

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): màn (man⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): maan⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: màn
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄢˋ
    • Wade-Giles: man⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mann
    • IPA ^(key): /ma̠n⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: maan⁶
    • Yale: maahn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: maan⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /mɑːn²²/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (漫, reconstructed)
Character (漫), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 明 (4) Final: 桓 Division: I			Openness: Closed Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 莫半切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/muɑnH/	/muɑnH/	/muɑnH/	/mʷɑnH/	/mwanH/	/muɑnH/	/muɑnH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (漫, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
漫								màn								‹ manH ›								/*mˤa[n]-s/								wide, limitless
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
漫					8748					曼					元					3					縵					/*moːns/

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

漫

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: まん (man)
• Kan’on: ばん (ban)
• 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 (man) (hangeul 만, revised man, McCune-Reischauer man, Yale man)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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

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