綿蠻
Chinese
cotton; incessant; soft cotton; incessant; soft; downy |
barbarian; bullying; very barbarian; bullying; very; quite; rough; reckless | ||
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trad. (綿蠻) | 綿 | 蠻 | |
simp. (绵蛮) | 绵 | 蛮 |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄢˊ ㄇㄢˊ
- Tongyong Pinyin: miánmán
- Wade–Giles: mien2-man2
- Yale: myán-mán
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mianman
- Palladius: мяньмань (mjanʹmanʹ)
- Sinological IPA (key): /mi̯ɛn³⁵ män³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
Noun
(deprecated template usage) 綿蠻
- (literary) small birds, or the chirping of birds
- 綿蠻黃鳥,止于丘阿。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
- From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
- Miánmán huángniǎo, zhǐ yú qiū'ē. [Pinyin]
- There is that little oriole,
Resting on a bend of the mound.
绵蛮黄鸟,止于丘阿。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]