蠻子

See also: 蛮子

Chinese

barbarian; bullying; very
barbarian; bullying; very; quite; rough; reckless
 
child; son; (noun suffix)
child; son; (noun suffix); small thing; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch; 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight
 
trad. (蠻子) 蠻 子
simp. (蛮子) 蛮 子

Pronunciation

Noun

蠻子

  1. (derogatory, dated) southern barbarian; southerner; someone from southern China
  2. (historical) A name for Song China (particularly) under the Yuan

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 南方人 (“southerner; someone from Southern China”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 南方人
Northeastern Mandarin Harbin 南蠻子, 蠻子
Central Plains Mandarin Xuzhou 南蠻子, 蠻子
Jianghuai Mandarin Yangzhou 蠻子
Cantonese Hong Kong 南方人
Jin Taiyuan 南蠻子
Xinzhou 南蠻子, 蠻子
Wu Shanghai 南方人

Descendants

  • → Classical Persian: منزی (manzī, “Song China”)
  • → Tibetan: སྨན་རྩེ (sman rtse, “Song China”), སྨན་རྩི (sman rtsi), སྨན་ཙེ (sman tse), དམན་ཚེ (dman tshe)
  • → Latin: Mangi (“Song China”)
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