蠻

See also: 蛮

Translingual

Han character

蠻 (Kangxi radical 142, 虫+19, 25 strokes, cangjie input 女火中一戈 (VFLMI), four-corner 2213₆, composition ⿱䜌虫)

Derived characters

• 䂅, 𢦈, 𢺳, 𥾃, 𧖣, 𧖦, 𪈿

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1104, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33914
• Dae Jaweon: page 1567, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2909, character 21
• Unihan data for U+883B

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Chinese

trad.		蠻
simp.		蛮
alternative forms		滿／满 “quite”

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
蠻	*mroːn
矕	*mroːnʔ
變	*prons
鸞	*b·roːn
巒	*b·roːn
灤	*b·roːn
欒	*b·roːn
鑾	*b·roːn
臠	*b·roːn, *b·ronʔ
羉	*b·roːn
䜌	*b·roːn, *b·ron, *b·rons
灓	*b·roːn, *b·roːns, *b·rons
圝	*b·roːn
曫	*b·roːn
孿	*smroːns, *smrons
彎	*qroːn
灣	*qroːn
攣	*b·ron
孌	*b·ronʔ, *b·rons
戀	*b·rons
㪻	*pʰlons, *klons

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *mroːn) : phonetic 䜌 (OC *b·roːn, *b·ron, *b·rons) + semantic 虫 (“snake”).

Etymology

Possibly related to Burmese မြန်မာ (mranma, “Myanmar; Burma; Burmese”), Tibetan བྲན (bran, “servant, slave”).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 蠻

1. (historical, derogatory) A collective name for all the non-Han ethnic groups in modern-day southern China.

   南蠻／南蛮  ―  nánmán  ―  the Southern barbarians

2. barbarous; savage; uncivilised
3. rough; rude; unreasonable

   野蠻／野蛮  ―  yěmán  ―  uncivilised; rude and unreasonable

4. rash; hot-headed
5. valiantly; uncouthly; vulgarly

   胡攪蠻纏／胡搅蛮缠  ―  hújiǎománchán  ―  to pester somebody endlessly

6. (dialectal, colloquial) very; quite

   儂好𠲎？我蠻好。 [Shanghainese, trad.]
   侬好𠲎？我蛮好。 [Shanghainese, simp.]

   ³non ²hau ⁰va ³ngu ¹'me ²hau [Wugniu]

   How are you? I'm very well.

   蠻好吃／蛮好吃  ―  mán hǎochī  ―  pretty tasty

Synonyms

• (rash):

(deprecated template usage)

• 倉磅／仓磅 (Xiamen Hokkien, Zhangzhou Hokkien)
• 倉莽／仓莽 (Xiamen Hokkien)
• 冒失 (màoshī)
• 冒昧 (màomèi) (humble, of oneself)
• 唐突 (tángtū)
• 愣
• 莽夫 (Quanzhou Hokkien)
• 莽撞 (mǎngzhuàng)
• 魯莽／鲁莽 (lǔmǎng)

 

• (very):

Dialectal synonyms of 很 (“very”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		甚, 孔
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		很, 非常, 十分
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	挺, 很, 倍兒, 怪
	Taiwan	很, 好, 非常, 超, 蠻, 超級
	Malaysia	很
	Singapore	很, 蠻, 非常
Jilu Mandarin	Tianjin	挺, 很, 傻, 老, 倍兒, 齁兒
	Jinan	挺, 楞
Central Plains Mandarin	Xi'an	很
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	很, 好
	Chongqing	很
	Wuhan	蠻, 很
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	蠻, 稀, 很
	Hefei	很
Cantonese	Guangzhou	好, 非常之
	Hong Kong	好, 非常, 非常之, 超, 勁, 十分之, 無敵
	Zhongshan (Shiqi)	好
	Taishan	好, 十分之
	Yangjiang	好
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	好
	Singapore (Guangfu)	好, 非常之, 非常
Gan	Nanchang	蠻
Hakka	Meixian	好, 刮, 已, 還, 異, 還 exclamation
	Huidong (Daling)	好
	Wuhua (Meilin)	好
	Shaoguan (Qujiang)	頂
	Lianshan (Xiaosanjiang)	好
	Changting	野
	Wuping (Pingyu)	已, 刮
	Liancheng	樣
	Ninghua	好
	Ruijin	蠻
	Shicheng	蠻
	Shangyou (Shexi)	蠻
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	當, 已, 還
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	蓋, 盡, 還
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	當, 盡, 已, 還
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	當, 已, 還
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	當, 已, 還
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	足, 真, 實在
	Hong Kong	好
	Sabah (Bao'an)	好
	Kuching (Hepo)	很
	Singapore (Dabu)	好
Jin	Taiyuan	很, 挺
Northern Min	Jian'ou	盡
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	野, 真
	Singapore (Fuqing)	真
	Sitiawan (Gutian)	真
Southern Min	Xiamen	真, 野, 誠, 有夠, 萬代, 死人, 非常, 真正, 設汰, 一
	Xiamen (Tong'an)	真
	Quanzhou	真, 野, 誠, 有夠, 萬代, 死人, 設汰
	Jinjiang	野
	Zhangzhou	盡, 蓋, 足, 足範, 有夠, 出奇, 極死, 見死, 死了了, 死人, 設汰, 設汰仔
	Zhao'an	很, 真, 死絕, 好, 非常
	Dongshan	真, 非常
	Taipei	真, 誠
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	真, 誠
	Kaohsiung	有夠, 足, 真, 誠, 蓋
	Yilan	有夠, 足, 誠, 盡
	Changhua (Lukang)	真, 誠
	Taichung	誠, 蓋, 足
	Tainan	有夠, 足, 真, 誠, 蓋
	Hsinchu	真, 誠
	Kinmen	足, 誠
	Penghu (Magong)	真, 誠
	Penang (Hokkien)	真, 誠, 真正
	Singapore (Hokkien)	真, 死爸, 真正, 誠, 足, 有夠
	Manila (Hokkien)	野, 真, 萬代, 真誠, 誠, 有夠
	Chaozhou	過, 好, 非常, 死爸
	Shantou	過, 鐵, 好, 很, 死爸, 死絕
	Shantou (Chenghai)	好, 死絕
	Shantou (Chaoyang)	好, 非常
	Jieyang	過, 好, 死爸, 死絕
	Bangkok (Teochew)	好
	Johor Bahru (Teochew)	好
	Singapore (Teochew)	真, 死爸, 非常
	Wenchang	極, 但顧, 真
	Haikou	但顧
	Qionghai	但顧, 真
	Singapore (Hainanese)	但顧, 真
Zhongshan Min	Zhongshan (Longdu, Shaxi)	好, 蠻
Wu	Shanghai	蠻, 老, 邪氣, 老老, 瞎, 絕, 十分, 十二萬分, 非常, 非常之, 畢, 畢畢, 來得, 來得個, 煞, 交關, 十二分 rare, 窮 dated, 野 dated, 邪 dated
	Suzhou	蠻, 窮
	Hangzhou	蠻, 交關, 木佬佬, 冒
	Ningbo	交關, 蠻, 堪, 𣍐好, 𣍐派, 甮派, 出格, 木牢牢 rare, 猛 rare
	Zhoushan	交關, 蠻, 猛, 堪, 出格, 木牢牢 rare
	Wenzhou	蠻, 蒙, 顯
Xiang	Changsha	很, 蠻
	Shuangfeng	蠻

Compounds

Citations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:蠻.

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Japanese

Shinjitai	蛮
Kyūjitai	蠻

Kanji

蠻

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 蛮)

1. barbarian

Readings

• On (unclassified): ばん (ban)
• Kun: えびす (ebisu)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 蠻 (man, mán, mơn)

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