漫

漫 U+6F2B, 漫 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6F2B ← 漪 [U+6F2A] CJK Unified Ideographs 漬 → [U+6F2C]

See also: 澷

Translingual

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

simp. and trad.		漫

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, OC *moːns): semantic 氵 + phonetic 曼 (OC *moːn, *mons) – water overflowing. Note that 曼 means “vast, extended”, so connotations of “too much water, overflow”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): màn (man⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): maan⁴, maan⁶
• Min Nan (POJ): bān / boān

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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: maan⁴, maan⁶
    • Yale: màahn, maahn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: maan⁴, maan⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: man⁴, man⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /mɑːn²¹/, /mɑːn²²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bān
    • Tâi-lô: bān
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ban
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ban²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ban⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ban²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ban³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ban³³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: boān
    • Tâi-lô: buān
    • Phofsit Daibuun: boan
    • IPA (Xiamen): /buan²²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /buan²²/

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• Middle Chinese: /muɑn^H/▼

Rime
Character	漫
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	桓 (62)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	莫半切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/muɑnH/
Pan Wuyun	/mʷɑnH/
Shao Rongfen	/muɑnH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/mwanH/
Li Rong	/muɑnH/
Wang Li	/muɑnH/
Bernard Karlgren	/muɑnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	màn

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*mˤa[n]-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*moːns/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	漫
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	màn
Middle Chinese	‹ manH ›
Old Chinese	/*mˤa[n]-s/
English	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	漫
Reading #	1/1
No.	8748
Phonetic component	曼
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	縵
Old Chinese	/*moːns/

Definitions

漫

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Compounds

Derived terms from 漫

• 動漫畫／动漫画
• 嘲諷漫罵／嘲讽漫骂
• 國際漫遊／国际漫游
• 天真爛漫／天真烂漫 (tiānzhēn lànmàn)
• 太空漫步
• 夷漫
• 彌漫／弥漫 (mímàn)
• 懷刺漫滅／怀刺漫灭
• 抵死漫生
• 撒漫
• 散漫 (sǎnmàn)
• 杳漫
• 汗漫
• 汙漫／污漫
• 河漫灘／河漫滩 (hémàntān)
• 流漫
• 浩漫
• 浪漫 (làngmàn)
• 浪漫主義／浪漫主义 (làngmàn zhǔyì)
• 浪漫曲
• 浪漫樂派／浪漫乐派
• 浪漫派
• 淼漫
• 湠漫
• 漫不經心／漫不经心
• 漫不經意／漫不经意
• 漫卷
• 漫反射
• 漫叟
• 漫地漫天
• 漫地風雪／漫地风雪
• 漫天 (màntiān)
• 漫天匝地

• 漫天叫價／漫天叫价
• 漫天塞地
• 漫天徹地／漫天彻地
• 漫天漫地
• 漫天索價／漫天索价
• 漫天蓋地／漫天盖地
• 漫天討價／漫天讨价
• 漫天遍野
• 漫天開價／漫天开价
• 漫天飛舞／漫天飞舞
• 漫山 (mànshān)
• 漫山塞野 (mànshān sè yě)
• 漫山越嶺／漫山越岭
• 漫山遍野 (mànshānbiànyě)
• 漫布
• 漫成
• 漫條斯理／漫条斯理
• 漫步 (mànbù)
• 漫汗
• 漫流
• 漫浪
• 漫游 (mànyóu)
• 漫溢 (mànyì)
• 漫滅／漫灭
• 漫漫 (mànmàn)
• 漫漶
• 漫灌
• 漫無止境／漫无止境
• 漫無目的／漫无目的
• 漫無節制／漫无节制
• 漫無紀律／漫无纪律
• 漫無邊際／漫无边际

• 漫然
• 漫畫／漫画 (mànhuà)
• 漫空
• 漫筆／漫笔 (mànbǐ)
• 漫罵／漫骂 (mànmà)
• 漫聲／漫声
• 漫與／漫与
• 漫草
• 漫衍
• 漫評／漫评
• 漫誕不稽／漫诞不稽
• 漫語／漫语
• 漫說／漫说
• 漫談／漫谈 (màntán)
• 漫議／漫议
• 漫遊／漫游 (mànyóu)
• 漫道
• 漫錄／漫录
• 漫長／漫长 (màncháng)
• 漫頭一料／漫头一料
• 漫騰騰／漫腾腾
• 澶漫
• 濫漫／滥漫
• 瀰漫／弥漫
• 瀾漫／澜漫
• 爛漫／烂漫 (lànmàn)
• 碧雞漫志／碧鸡漫志
• 罕漫
• 迷漫 (mímàn)
• 過漫／过漫
• 魚龍漫衍／鱼龙漫衍
• 黑漫漫

References

• (Cantonese) Multi-function Chinese Character Database (漢語多功能字庫)

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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) (manpyō)
• 漫歩 (まんぽ) (manpo)
• 漫々 (まんまん) (manman), 漫漫 (まんまん) (manman)
• 漫遊 (まんゆう) (man'yū)
• 漫録 (まんろく) (manroku)
• 散漫 (さんまん) (sanman)
• 冗漫 (じょうまん) (jōman)
• 瀰漫 (びまん) (biman)
• 放漫 (ほうまん) (hōman)
• 爛漫 (らんまん) (ranman), 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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