蠻

See also: 蛮
蠻 U+883B, 蠻
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-883B
← 蠺
[U+883A] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 蠼 →
[U+883C]

Translingual

Han character

蠻 (radical 142, 虫+19, 25 strokes, cangjie input 女火中一戈 (VFLMI), four-corner 22136, composition ⿱䜌虫)

Derived characters

References
  • KangXi: page 1104, character 25
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33914
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1567, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2909, character 21
  • Unihan data for U+883B

Chinese
trad. 蠻
simp. 蛮
variant forms 滿／满 “quite”

Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (䜌) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
蠻 *mroːn
矕 *mroːnʔ
變 *prons
鸞 *b·roːn
巒 *b·roːn
灤 *b·roːn
欒 *b·roːn
鑾 *b·roːn
臠 *b·roːn, *b·ronʔ
羉 *b·roːn
䜌 *b·roːn, *b·ron, *b·rons
灓 *b·roːn, *b·roːns, *b·rons
圝 *b·roːn
曫 *b·roːn
孿 *smroːns, *smrons
彎 *qroːn
灣 *qroːn
攣 *b·ron
孌 *b·ronʔ, *b·rons
戀 *b·rons
㪻 *pʰlons, *klons

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *mroːn) : phonetic 䜌 (OC *b·roːn, *b·ron, *b·rons) + semantic 虫 (“snake”).

Etymology

Possibly related to Burmese မြန်မာ (mranma, “Myanmar; Burma; Burmese”), Tibetan བྲན (bran, “servant, slave”).

Pronunciation
Note:
  • 1'me - “very; quite”.
Rime
Character 蠻
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 刪 (69)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 莫還切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /mˠan/
Pan
Wuyun		 /mᵚan/
Shao
Rongfen		 /mɐn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /maɨn/
Li
Rong		 /man/
Wang
Li		 /man/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /man/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 mán
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 蠻
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 mán
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ maen ›
Old
Chinese		 /*mˁro[n]/
English southern foreigner

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 蠻
Reading # 1/1
No. 8610
Phonetic
component
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 蠻
Old
Chinese		 /*mroːn/
Notes 金文作

Definitions

蠻

  1. (historical, derogatory) A collective name for all the non-Han ethnic groups in modern-day southern China.
    南蠻 / 南蛮  ―  nánmán  ―  the Southern barbarians
  2. barbarous; savage; uncivilised
  3. rough; rude; unreasonable
    野蠻 / 野蛮  ―  yěmán  ―  uncivilised; rude and unreasonable
  4. valiantly; uncouthly; vulgarly
    胡攪蠻纏 / 胡搅蛮缠  ―  hújiǎománchán  ―  to pester somebody endlessly
  5. (dialectal, colloquial) very; quite
    儂好𠲎？我蠻好。 [Shanghainese, trad.]
    侬好𠲎？我蛮好。 [Shanghainese, simp.]
    [nʊŋ³³  hɔ³⁴ v̻a̱ ŋv̩ʷ²³ ʔme̞⁵³ hɔ³⁴] [IPA]
    How are you? I'm very well.
    蠻好吃 / 蛮好吃  ―  mán hǎochī  ―  pretty tasty

Synonyms
  • (very):
Dialectal synonyms of 很 (“very; quite”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 甚
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 非常, 很, 十分, 太
Mandarin Beijing 挺, 很, 倍兒
Taiwan 很, 挺
Tianjin 挺, 很, 傻
Jinan 挺, 楞
Xi'an 很
Wuhan 蠻, 很
Chengdu 很, 好
Yangzhou 蠻, 稀, 很
Hefei 很
Cantonese Guangzhou 好
Hong Kong 好
Taishan 好
Yangjiang 好
Gan Nanchang 蠻
Hakka Meixian 好
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 當, 已, 還
Liudui (S. Sixian) 蓋, 盡, 還
Hsinchu (Hailu) 當, 已, 還
Dongshi (Dabu) 當, 已, 還
Hsinchu (Raoping) 當, 已, 還
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 足, 真, 實在
Sabah 好
Jin Taiyuan 很, 挺
Min Bei Jian'ou 真
Min Dong Fuzhou 野, 真
Min Nan Xiamen 真, 野, 誠, 有夠, 萬代
Quanzhou 真, 野, 誠, 有夠, 萬代
Zhangzhou 盡, 蓋, 足, 足範, 有夠, 出奇, 極死, 見死
Taipei 真, 誠
Kaohsiung 有夠, 足, 真, 誠, 蓋
Tainan 有夠, 足, 真, 誠, 蓋
Taichung 誠, 蓋, 足
Hsinchu 真, 誠
Lukang 真, 誠
Sanxia 真, 誠
Yilan 有夠, 足, 誠, 盡
Kinmen 足, 誠
Magong 真, 誠
Penang 真, 誠, 真正
Philippines (Manila) 野, 真, 萬代
Chaozhou 過
Wu Shanghai 蠻, 老
Suzhou 蠻
Wenzhou 蠻, 蒙, 顯
Xiang Changsha 很, 蠻
Shuangfeng 蠻

Compounds
  • 蠻箋／蛮笺
  • 蠻纏／蛮缠 (mánchán)
  • 蠻聲哈剌／蛮声哈剌
  • 蠻腰／蛮腰
  • 蠻荒／蛮荒
  • 蠻蠻／蛮蛮
  • 蠻觸／蛮触
  • 蠻觸之爭／蛮触之争
  • 蠻觸相爭／蛮触相争
  • 蠻話／蛮话
  • 蠻貊／蛮貊
  • 蠻針瞎灸／蛮针瞎灸
  • 蠻靴／蛮靴
  • 觸蠻／触蛮
  • 野蠻／野蛮 (yěmán)

Citations
  • For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:蠻.

Japanese

Shinjitai

 蛮

Kyūjitai

 蠻

Kanji
蠻

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 蛮)

  1. barbarian

Readings
  • On (unclassified): ばん (ban)
  • Kun: えびす (ebisu)

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

蠻 (man, mán, mơn)

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