漫

See also: 澷

Translingual

Han character

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

Derived characters

• 䕕, 𩆓

References

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

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Chinese

trad.		漫
simp. #		漫
alternative forms		澫／𬇕 澷 𣸞

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

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): màn (man⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): maan⁴ / maan⁶
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): bān / boān

  (Teochew, Peng'im): bhuêng⁶ / bhuang⁶ / muang⁶ / mua⁷

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: màn
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: màn
    • Wade–Giles: man⁴
    • Yale: màn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mann
    • Palladius: мань (manʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /män⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: maan⁴ / maan⁶
    • Yale: màahn / maahn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: maan⁴ / maan⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: man⁴ / man⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /maːn²¹/, /maːn²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bān
    • Tâi-lô: bān
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ban
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /ban²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ban⁴¹/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /ban³³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: boān
    • Tâi-lô: buān
    • Phofsit Daibuun: boan
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /buan²²/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: bhuêng⁶ / bhuang⁶ / muang⁶ / mua⁷
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: buĕng / buăng / muăng / muā
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /bueŋ³⁵/, /buaŋ³⁵/, /muaŋ³⁵/, /mua¹¹/

Note:

• bhuêng6 - Chaozhou;
• bhuang6 - Shantou, Chenghai;
• muang6 - Chaoyang, Jieyang, Raoping;
• mua7 - vernacular.

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• Middle Chinese: manH

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
Baxter	manH
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
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mun6

• 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	/*mˁa[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

(deprecated template usage) 漫

1. overflow (of water), brim over, flood
2. free, casual, unrestrained
3. spreading

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Japanese

Kanji

漫

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: まん (man, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: ばん (ban)
• Kun: みだりに (midarini, 漫りに); そぞろに (sozoroni, 漫ろに)

Compounds

• 漫(まん)画(が) (manga): comics
• 漫(まん)言(げん) (mangen)
• 漫(まん)語(ご) (mango)
• 漫(まん)才(ざい) (manzai): a style of double act stand-up comedy
• 漫(まん)然(ぜん) (manzen)
• 漫(まん)談(だん) (mandan)
• 漫(まん)読(どく) (mandoku)
• 漫(まん)罵(ば) (manba)
• 漫(まん)筆(ぴつ) (manpitsu)
• 漫(まん)評(ぴょう) (manpyō)
• 漫(まん)歩(ぽ) (manpo)
• 漫(まん)々(まん) (manman), 漫(まん)漫(まん) (manman)
• 漫(まん)遊(ゆう) (man'yū)
• 漫(まん)録(ろく) (manroku)
• 散(さん)漫(まん) (sanman)
• 冗(じょう)漫(まん) (jōman)
• 瀰(び)漫(まん) (biman)
• 放(ほう)漫(まん) (hōman)
• 爛(らん)漫(まん) (ranman), 瀾(らん)漫(まん) (ranman)

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Korean

Hanja

漫 (eum 만 (man))

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Vietnamese

Han character

漫: Hán Việt readings: mạn (莫(mạc)半(bán)切(thiết)), man
漫: Nôm readings: mặn, mạn, mướn, mượn, man, mẳn, mớn, mằn, máng

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