曼

曼	U+66FC, 曼 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-66FC

← 曻
[U+66FB]

CJK Unified Ideographs

曽 →
[U+66FD]

Translingual

Han character

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

long, extended, vast
beautiful

Derived characters

漫慢饅鰻 (鳗) 謾槾鏝墁嫚熳𠼦獌縵䡬

References

KangXi: 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

trad.		曼
simp. ^#		曼

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

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): màn (man⁴)
(Zhuyin): ㄇㄢˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): maan⁶
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): bān / boān
(Teochew, Peng'im): bhuang⁶ / bhuêng⁶ / mang⁶

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)⁺
  - Jyutping: maan⁶
  - Yale: maahn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: maan⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: man⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /maːn²²/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bān
  - Tâi-lô: bān
  - Phofsit Daibuun: ban
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /ban²²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /ban⁴¹/
  - IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /ban³³/
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: boān
  - Tâi-lô: buān
  - Phofsit Daibuun: boan
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /buan⁴¹/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /buan²²/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: bhuang⁶ / bhuêng⁶ / mang⁶
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: buăng / buĕng / măng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /buaŋ³⁵/, /bueŋ³⁵/, /maŋ³⁵/

Note:

bhuang6 - Shantou;
bhuêng6 - Chaozhou;
mang6 - literary, used in 曼谷.

Middle Chinese: /muɑn/, /mʉɐn^H/

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
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/muɑn/	/mʉɐn^H/
Pan Wuyun	/mʷɑn/	/mʷiɐn^H/
Shao Rongfen	/muɑn/	/miuɐn^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/mwan/	/muan^H/
Li Rong	/muɑn/	/miuɐn^H/
Wang Li	/muɑn/	/mĭwɐn^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/muɑn/	/mi̯wɐn^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mán	wàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mun⁴	maan⁶

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*mˤa[n]-s/, /*ma[n]-s/
(Zhengzhang): /*moːn/, /*mons/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	曼	曼
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	màn	màn
Middle Chinese	‹ man^H ›	‹ mjon^H ›
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

曼

long; extended; drawn-out
- 韓娥因曼聲哀哭，一里老幼悲愁垂涕相對，三日不食。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
  韩娥因曼声哀哭，一里老幼悲愁垂涕相对，三日不食。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
  From: Liezi, 1^st – 5^th century CE
  Hán É yīn mànshēng āikū, yī lǐ lǎoyòu bēichóu chuítì xiàngduì, sānrì bù shí. [Pinyin]
  Han E, full of hurt, thus cried out in long wailing songs, and people of the neighbourhood found themselves sad, desolate, and full of tears, and for three days they were unable to eat.
handsome; beautiful; refined
曼妙 ― mànmiào ― graceful; beautiful
- 曼理皓齒，說情而捐精。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
  曼理皓齿，说情而捐精。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
  From: Han Feizi, circa 2^nd century BCE
  Màn lǐ hào chǐ, yuè qíng ér juān jīng. [Pinyin]
  The beauty having delicate skin and pretty white teeth pleases feeling but exhausts energy.
- 今雖欲自雕琢，曼辭以自飾，無益於俗，不信，適足取辱耳。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
  今虽欲自雕琢，曼辞以自饰，无益于俗，不信，适足取辱耳。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
  From: 1st century BCE, Sima Qian, Letter to Ren An. Translated by Burton Watson.
  Jīn suī yù zì diāozhuó, màn cí yǐ zìshì, wúyì yú sú, bùxìn, shì zú qǔ rǔ ěr. [Pinyin]
  Now although I might try to add glory and fame to myself, or with fine words seek to excuse my error, it would have no effect on the vulgar. I would not be believed, but would only take upon myself further shame.
a surname

Compounds

吐曼塔勒 (Tǔmàntǎlè)
喀勒塔吐格曼 (Kālètǎtùgémàn)
安曼 (Ānmàn)
布希曼
拜什吐格曼 (Bàishí Tǔgémàn)
曼妙
曼延 (mànyán)
曼暖
曼波 (mànbō)
曼睩
曼衍
曼谷 (Màngǔ)
曼陀林 (màntuólín)
曼靡
曼鬋

柔曼 (róumàn)
祁曼塔格 (Qímàntǎgé)
艾西曼 (Àixīmàn)
莫曼斯克
阿利曼
阿曼 (Āmàn)
靡曼 (mǐmàn)
加里曼丹 (Jiālǐmàndān)
土庫曼／土库曼 (Tǔkùmàn)
寶天曼／宝天曼 (Bǎotiānmàn)
曼儂／曼侬
曼哈坦島／曼哈坦岛
曼壽／曼寿
曼徹斯特／曼彻斯特 (Mànchèsītè)

曼澤／曼泽
曼珠沙華／曼珠沙华 (mànzhūshāhuá)
曼羨／曼羡
曼聲／曼声
曼荊／曼荆
曼荼羅／曼荼罗 (màntúluó)
曼辭／曼辞
曼陀羅／曼陀罗 (màntuóluó)
曼麗／曼丽
羅曼史／罗曼史 (luómànshǐ)
羅曼蒂克／罗曼蒂克 (luómàndìkè)
諾曼人／诺曼人 (nuòmànrén)
諾曼第／诺曼第 (Nuòmàndì)
輕歌曼舞／轻歌曼舞

Japanese

Kanji

曼

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

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

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

曼: Hán Nôm readings: man, mạn

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