慢

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

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

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 399, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11110
• Dae Jaweon: page 738, character 29
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2346, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6162

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Chinese

trad.		慢
simp. #		慢
alternative forms		⿰忄万 second round simplified

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (曼) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
獌	*mroːn, *moːns, *mons
鬘	*mroːn
謾	*mroːn, *mroːns, *mon, *moːn, *moːns
慢	*mroːns
嫚	*mroːns
縵	*mroːns, *moːns
曼	*moːn, *mons
饅	*moːn
蔓	*moːn, *mons
鰻	*moːn, *mons
墁	*moːn, *moːns
鏝	*moːn, *moːns
槾	*moːn
漫	*moːns
幔	*moːns
蟃	*mons

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *mroːns) : semantic 忄 (“heart”) + phonetic 曼 (OC *moːn, *mons) – 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”.

Definitions

慢 "slow" painted on the road in Taiwan

(deprecated template usage) 慢

1. slow; sluggish
2. slowly; leisurely

Synonyms

• (slow): 緩／缓 (huǎn)

Antonyms

• (slow): 快 (kuài)

Further reading

• “Entry #10531”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.

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Japanese

Kanji

慢

(Jōyō kanji)

1. (おそい) slow
2. (おこたる) negligent
3. (あなどる、おごる) arrogant

Readings

• Go-on: めん (men)
• Kan-on: ばん (ban)
• Kan’yō-on: まん (man, Jōyō)
• Kun: おそい (osoi, 慢い); おこたる (okotaru, 慢る); あなどる (anadoru, 慢る); おごる (ogoru, 慢る)

Compounds

• (slow): 慢性, 緩慢, 遅慢
• (negligent): 怠慢
• (arrogant): 高慢, 傲慢, 自慢

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Korean

Hanja

慢 • (man) (hangeul 만, McCune–Reischauer man, Yale man)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 慢 (mạn, mắn)

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