饅

See also: 馒

Translingual

shinjitai	饅
simplified	馒
traditional	饅

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 食 + phonetic 曼.

Note that Japanese uses a variant form of the left radical 食 (“food”) (two horizontal lines at the bottom) – the character, being hyōgaiji (uncommon), is written in kyūjitai (Japanese traditional forms).

Han character

饅 (radical 184 食+11, 20 strokes, cangjie input 人戈日田水 (OIAWE), four-corner 8674₇)

1. steamed bread
2. steamed dumplings

References

• KangXi: page 1424, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44346
• Dae Jaweon: page 1950, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4470, character 13
• Unihan data for U+9945

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Cantonese

Hanzi

饅 (simplified 馒, Yale maan4)

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Japanese

Kanji

饅

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: まん (man), ばん (ban)

Compounds

• 饅頭 (まんじゅう, manjū, “steamed dumpling”)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

饅 (simplified 馒, Pinyin mán (man2), Wade-Giles man²)

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Vietnamese

Han character

饅 (man)

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