漫畫

See also: 漫画 and 漫畵

Chinese

		free; unrestrained; inundate free; unrestrained; inundate; impromptu	draw; picture; painting
trad. (漫畫)		漫	畫
simp. (漫画)		漫	画

Etymology

Wasei kango (和製漢語), orthographically borrowed from Japanese 漫(まん)画(が) (manga).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): mànhuà

(Zhuyin): ㄇㄢˋ ㄏㄨㄚˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): maan⁶ waa^6-2
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): man-fa / mang-ká

(Hailu, HRS): man^˖ fa^˖
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bān-ōa / bān-ūi / bān-ōe / bàng-gà
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶me-gho

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: mànhuà
  - Zhuyin: ㄇㄢˋ ㄏㄨㄚˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: mànhuà
  - Wade–Giles: man⁴-hua⁴
  - Yale: màn-hwà
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mannhuah
  - Palladius: маньхуа (manʹxua)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /män⁵¹⁻⁵³ xu̯ä⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: maan⁶ waa^6-2
  - Yale: maahn wá
  - Cantonese Pinyin: maan⁶ waa^6-2
  - Guangdong Romanization: man⁶ wa^6-2
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /maːn²² waː²²⁻³⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: man-fa / mang-ká
  - Hakka Romanization System: man fa / mang ga^ˋ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: man⁴ fa⁴ / mang⁴ ga³
  - Sinological IPA: /man⁵⁵ fa⁵⁵/, /maŋ⁵⁵ ka³¹/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
  - Hakka Romanization System: man^˖ fa^˖
  - Sinological IPA: /man³³ fa³³/

Note: mang-ká - from Japanese pronunciation.

Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bān-ōa
  - Tâi-lô: bān-uā
  - Phofsit Daibuun: baxn'oa
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /ban²²⁻²¹ ua²²/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bān-ūi
  - Tâi-lô: bān-uī
  - Phofsit Daibuun: baxn'ui
  - IPA (Xiamen): /ban²²⁻²¹ ui²²/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bān-ōe
  - Tâi-lô: bān-uē
  - Phofsit Daibuun: baxn'oe
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /ban⁴¹⁻²² ue⁴¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /ban³³⁻¹¹ ue³³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /ban³³⁻²¹ ue³³/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bàng-gà
  - Tâi-lô: bàng-gà
  - Phofsit Daibuun: barnggax
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /baŋ²¹⁻⁴¹ ɡa²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /baŋ¹¹⁻⁵³ ɡa¹¹/

Note: bàng-gà - from Japanese pronunciation.

Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁶me-gho
  - MiniDict: me^去 gho
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³me-hho
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /me²² ɦo⁴⁴/

Noun

漫畫

comics; caricature; cartoon; manga; manhwa; manhua

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 漫畫書 (“comic book”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		漫畫書, 漫畫冊
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	漫畫書
Northeastern Mandarin	Singapore	漫畫, 連環圖書
Cantonese	Guangzhou	公仔書
Cantonese	Hong Kong	公仔書, 漫畫
Southern Min	Xiamen	古冊, 尪仔冊
	Quanzhou	人仔冊, 人仔圖
	Zhangzhou	古冊, 尪仔冊, 尪仔古冊
	Taipei	尪仔書
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	尪仔書
	Kaohsiung	尪仔冊
	Yilan	尪仔冊
	Changhua (Lukang)	儂仔書
	Taichung	尪仔冊
	Tainan	尪仔冊
	Hsinchu	漫畫
	Kinmen	儂仔書
	Penghu (Magong)	尪仔書
	Penang (Hokkien)	komik
Wu	Shanghai	小人書, 小書

Derived terms

動漫畫 / 动漫画
漫畫冊 / 漫画册 (mànhuàcè)
漫畫家 / 漫画家 (mànhuàjiā)
漫畫書 / 漫画书 (mànhuàshū)

Descendants

English: manhua (“Chinese comics”)
French: manhua (“Chinese comics”)
Russian: маньхуа́ (manʹxuá, “Chinese comics”)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
漫	畫
まん Grade: S	が Hyōgai
on'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 漫畫 – see the following entry.

【漫画まんが】

[noun] (drawing, painting) a drawing or painting made as one pleases without restraint, such as those by Hokusai

[noun] (art) a caricature (pictorial representation of someone or something for comic effect)

[noun] a comic (cartoon story)

Alternative spelling
マンガ

(This term, 漫畫, is the kyūjitai of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja in this term
漫	畫

Alternative forms

漫畵

Noun

漫畫 • (manhwa) (hangeul 만화)

hanja form^? of 만화 (“comics, manga, manhwa”)

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
漫	畫

Noun

漫畫

chữ Hán form of mạn hoạ (“comics, caricature, manhua, manga”)