瞞

See also: 瞒

Translingual

Traditional	瞞
Shinjitai (extended)	𥈞
Simplified	瞒

Han character

瞞 (Kangxi radical 109, 目+11, 16 strokes, cangjie input 月山廿中月 (BUTLB), four-corner 6402₇, composition ⿰目㒼)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 816, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23649
• Dae Jaweon: page 1229, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2509, character 7
• Unihan data for U+779E

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Chinese

trad.		瞞
simp.		瞒

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
芇	*men, *meːnʔ, *maːn
蹣	*boːn, *moːn
瞞	*moːn
顢	*moːn
樠	*moːn, *mon, *muːn
慲	*moːn
鬗	*moːn, *mons
滿	*moːnʔ
鏋	*moːnʔ
懣	*moːnʔ, *muːnʔ, *muːns
璊	*muːn

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *moːn) and ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : semantic 目 (“eye”) + phonetic 㒼 (, “to cover something carefully and tightly without a break”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mán (man²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mun⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): boân / môa

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mán
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mán
    • Wade–Giles: man²
    • Yale: mán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: man
    • Palladius: мань (manʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /män³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: mun⁴
    • Yale: mùhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mun⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: mun⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /muːn²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: boân
    • Tâi-lô: buân
    • Phofsit Daibuun: boaan
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /buan¹³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou): /buan²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: môa
    • Tâi-lô: muâ
    • Phofsit Daibuun: moaa
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /muã²³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /muã¹³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei): /muã²⁴/

Note:

• boân - literary;
• môa - vernacular.

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• Middle Chinese: man

Rime
Character	瞞
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	桓 (62)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	母官切
Baxter	man
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/muɑn/
Pan Wuyun	/mʷɑn/
Shao Rongfen	/muɑn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/mwan/
Li Rong	/muɑn/
Wang Li	/muɑn/
Bernard Karlgren	/muɑn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mán
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mun4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*mˤ[o][r]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*moːn/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	瞞
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	mán
Middle Chinese	‹ man ›
Old Chinese	/*mˁ[o][r]/
English	be deceived
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	瞞
Reading #	1/1
No.	9033
Phonetic component	芇
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	瞞
Old Chinese	/*moːn/
Notes	朱駿聲芇聲

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 瞞

1. to deceive; to lie; to conceal

   欺瞞／欺瞒  ―  qīmán  ―  to deceive, to dupe

   隱瞞／隐瞒  ―  yǐnmán  ―  to conceal; to hide; to cover up

   不瞞您說／不瞒您说  ―  bù mán nín shuō  ―  to tell you the truth

2. ^† eyes half-closed

References

• (Min Nan) “Entry #11841”, 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

瞞

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. deception

Readings

• Go-on: まん (man)
• Kan-on: ばん (ban)
• On: ぼん (bon)
• Kun: だます (damasu, 瞞す)

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Korean

Hanja

瞞 • (man) (hangeul 만, revised man, McCune–Reischauer man, Yale man)

1. deceive
2. lie
3. eyes half-closed

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 瞞 (man)

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