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曼

曼 U+66FC, 曼
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-66FC
← 曻
[U+66FB] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 曽 →
[U+66FD]

Translingual

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Han character

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曼 (Kangxi radical 73, 曰+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 日田中水 (AWLE), four-corner 60407, composition ⿳曰罒又(GJK) or ⿳⺜罒又(HT))

  1. long, extended, vast
  2. beautiful

Derived characters

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References

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  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 503, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14298
  • Dae Jaweon: page 876, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 399, character 15
  • Unihan data for U+66FC

Chinese

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trad. 曼
simp. # 曼

Glyph origin

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Historical forms of the character 曼
Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
     
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

Perhaps two hands opening an eye, or two hands over the eyebrows to indicate the eyes looking at a wide place. The second interpretation links this character to 看, a hand over an eye.

Pronunciation

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Note:
  • bhuang6 - Shantou;
  • bhuêng6 - Chaozhou;
  • mang6 - literary, used in 曼谷.
Rime
Character 曼 曼
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 明 (4) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 桓 (62) 元 (66)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division (等) I III
Fanqie 母官切 無販切
Baxter man mjonH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/muɑn/ /mʉɐnH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/mʷɑn/ /mʷiɐnH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/muɑn/ /miuɐnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/mwan/ /muanH/
Li
Rong 		/muɑn/ /miuɐnH/
Wang
Li 		/muɑn/ /mĭwɐnH/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/muɑn/ /mi̯wɐnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		mán wàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		mun4 maan6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 曼 曼
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		màn màn
Middle
Chinese 		‹ manH › ‹ mjonH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*mˁa[n]-s/ /*ma[n]-s/
English distant extended, long

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 曼 曼
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 8740 8756
Phonetic
component 		曼 曼
Rime
group 		元 元
Rime
subdivision 		3 3
Corresponding
MC rime 		瞞 万
Old
Chinese 		/*moːn/ /*mons/
Notes 說文冒聲

Definitions

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曼

  1. long; extended; drawn-out
  2. handsome; beautiful; refined
    曼妙  ―  mànmiào  ―  graceful; beautiful
  3. a surname

Compounds

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References

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  • 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “曼”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 151.

Japanese

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Kanji

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曼

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

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  • Go-on: まん (man)、もん (mon)
  • Kan-on: ばん (ban)
  • Kun: ながい (nagai, 曼い)、ひく (hiku, 曼く)、ひろい (hiroi, 曼い)

Korean

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Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

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Han character

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曼: Hán Nôm readings: man, mạn

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