嫚

嫚	U+5ADA, 嫚 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5ADA

← 嫙
[U+5AD9]

CJK Unified Ideographs

嫛 →
[U+5ADB]

Translingual

Han character

嫚 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 女日田水 (VAWE), four-corner 4644₇, composition ⿰女曼)

despise, insult, scorn
be rude, affront

Derived characters

𬞽

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 269, character 26
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6644
Dae Jaweon: page 537, character 17
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1077, character 4
Unihan data for U+5ADA

Chinese

trad.		嫚
simp. ^#		嫚

Glyph origin

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

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): màn (man⁴)

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄢˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): maan⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: màn
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄢˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: màn
  - Wade–Giles: man⁴
  - Yale: màn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mann
  - Palladius: мань (manʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /män⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: maan⁶
  - Yale: maahn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: maan⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: man⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /maːn²²/

Middle Chinese: maenH

Rime
Character	嫚
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	刪 (69)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	謨晏切
Baxter	maenH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mˠan^H/
Pan Wuyun	/mᵚan^H/
Shao Rongfen	/mɐn^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/maɨn^H/
Li Rong	/man^H/
Wang Li	/man^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/man^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	màn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	maan⁶

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*mroːns/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	嫚
Reading #	1/1
No.	8736
Phonetic component	曼
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	慢
Old Chinese	/*mroːns/

Definitions

嫚

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Compounds

嫚嫚
嫚罵 / 嫚骂 (mànmà)
詆嫚 / 诋嫚

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): mān (man¹)

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄢ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: mān
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄢ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: man
  - Wade–Giles: man¹
  - Yale: mān
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mhan
  - Palladius: мань (manʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /män⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: mānr
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄢㄦ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: manr
  - Wade–Giles: man¹-ʼrh
  - Yale: mānr
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mhal
  - Palladius: маньр (manʹr)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɑɻ⁵⁵/

Definitions

嫚

(dialect) girl

References

Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B00697

Japanese

Kanji

嫚

(Hyōgai kanji)

scorn
despise
be rude
affront

Readings

On (unclassified): ばん (ban)、まん (man)、べん (ben)、めん (men)、えん (en)
Kun: あなどる (anadoru)、けがす (kegasu)、おこたる (okotaru)、おごる (ogoru)

Korean

Hanja

嫚 (eum 만 (man))

despise
belittle
make dirty
beautiful (원)

Vietnamese

Han character

嫚: Hán Nôm readings: mạn

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References

Nom Foundation