蠻夷

See also: 蛮夷

Chinese

		barbarian; bullying; very barbarian; bullying; very; quite; rough; reckless	safe; to raze; to exterminate safe; to raze; to exterminate; barbarian
trad. (蠻夷)		蠻	夷
simp. (蛮夷)		蛮	夷

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mányí

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄢˊ ㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): maan⁴ ji⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mányí
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄢˊ ㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mányí
    • Wade–Giles: man²-i²
    • Yale: mán-yí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: manyi
    • Palladius: маньи (manʹi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /män³⁵ i³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: maan⁴ ji⁴
    • Yale: màahn yìh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: maan⁴ ji⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: man⁴ yi⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /maːn²¹ jiː²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: maen yij

Rime
Character	蠻	夷
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	刪 (69)	脂 (15)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	II	III
Fanqie	莫還切	以脂切
Baxter	maen	yij
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mˠan/	/jiɪ/
Pan Wuyun	/mᵚan/	/ji/
Shao Rongfen	/mɐn/	/jɪ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/maɨn/	/ji/
Li Rong	/man/	/i/
Wang Li	/man/	/ji/
Bernhard Karlgren	/man/	/i/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mán	yí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	maan4	ji4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*mˤro[n]  ləj/

  (Zhengzhang): /*mroːn  lil/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	蠻	夷
Reading #	1/1	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	mán	yí
Middle Chinese	‹ maen ›	‹ yij ›
Old Chinese	/*mˁro[n]/	/*ləj/
English	southern foreigner	foreigner (especially to the east)
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	蠻	夷
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	8610	14862
Phonetic component		夷
Rime group	元	脂
Rime subdivision	3	1
Corresponding MC rime	蠻	姨
Old Chinese	/*mroːn/	/*lil/
Notes	金文作

Noun

蠻夷

1. (historical, derogatory) non-Han ethnic groups living in modern-day southern and eastern China

   • 若夫譁囂之美，楚雖蠻夷，不能寶也。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     若夫哗嚣之美，楚虽蛮夷，不能宝也。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Guoyu, circa 4^th century BCE

     Ruòfú wáxiāo zhī měi, Chǔ suī mányí, bù néng bǎo yě. [Pinyin]

     As for beauty of the clattering kind — we the Chu, barbarians as we are, know better than to treasure it.

   • 熊渠曰：「我蠻夷也，不與中國之號謚。」 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     熊渠曰：「我蛮夷也，不与中国之号谥。」 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE

     Xióng Qú yuē: “Wǒ mányí yě, bù yù zhōngguó zhī hào shì.” [Pinyin]

     Xiong Qu said, "I am a so-called manyi and I don't follow the Middle Nations' way of posthumous naming."

Derived terms

• 蠻夷戎狄 / 蛮夷戎狄 (mányí róngdí)