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妄
妄
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Translingual
Han character
妄 (radical 38 女+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 卜女女 (YVV), four-corner 00404, composition ⿱亡女)
References
- KangXi: page 256, character 1
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6063
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1027, character 9
- Unihan data for U+5984
Chinese
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simp. and trad. |
妄 | |
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Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 妄
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| Bronze inscriptions | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (亡) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 忙 | *maːŋ |
| 芒 | *maːŋ, *maŋ |
| 茫 | *maːŋ |
| 恾 | *maːŋ |
| 吂 | *maːŋ, *maːŋs |
| 汒 | *maːŋ, *maŋs |
| 朚 | *maːŋ, *hmaːŋ, *maŋ, *mraːŋ, *mraːŋs |
| 邙 | *maːŋ, *maŋ |
| 杗 | *maːŋ, *maŋ |
| 荒 | *hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋs |
| 肓 | *hmaːŋ |
| 衁 | *hmaːŋ |
| 巟 | *hmaːŋ |
| 詤 | *hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋʔ, *hmaŋʔ |
| 慌 | *hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋʔ |
| 謊 | *hmaːŋʔ |
| 喪 | *smaːŋs, *smaːŋ |
| 亡 | *maŋ |
| 望 | *maŋ, *maŋs |
| 莣 | *maŋ |
| 朢 | *maŋ, *maŋs |
| 鋩 | *maŋ |
| 硭 | *maŋ |
| 忘 | *maŋ, *maŋs |
| 网 | *mlaŋʔ |
| 罔 | *mlaŋʔ |
| 蛧 | *maŋʔ |
| 網 | *mlaŋʔ |
| 輞 | *maŋʔ |
| 棢 | *maŋʔ |
| 惘 | *maŋʔ |
| 菵 | *maŋʔ |
| 誷 | *maŋʔ |
| 魍 | *maŋʔ |
| 妄 | *maŋs |
| 盲 | *mraːŋ |
| 蝱 | *mraːŋ |
| 虻 | *mraːŋ |
| 氓 | *mraːŋ |
| 甿 | *mraːŋ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *maŋs) : phonetic 亡 (OC *maŋ) + semantic 女.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): mong5, mong6
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): mong
- Min Dong (BUC): uông
- Min Nan (POJ): bōng
- Wu (Wiktionary): vaan (T3)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄨㄤˋ
- Wade-Giles: wang4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wanq
- IPA (key): /u̯ɑŋ⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: mong5, mong6
- Yale: móhng, mohng
- Cantonese Pinyin: mong5, mong6
- IPA (key): /mɔːŋ¹³/, /mɔːŋ²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: mong
- Hakka Romanization System: mong
- Hagfa Pinyim: mong4
- IPA: /moŋ⁵⁵/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: uông
- IPA (key): /uɔŋ²⁴²/
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bōng
- Tâi-lô: bōng
- Phofsit Daibuun: bong
- IPA (Xiamen): /bɔŋ²²/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /bɔŋ⁴¹/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /bɔŋ²²/
- IPA (Taipei): /bɔŋ³³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /bɔŋ³³/
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: vaan (T3)
- IPA (key): /v̻ɑ̃²³/
- (Shanghainese)
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 妄 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 明 (4) |
| Final (韻) | 陽 (106) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | III |
| Fanqie | 巫放切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/mʉɐŋH/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/mʷiɐŋH/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/miuɑŋH/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/muaŋH/ |
| Li Rong |
/miuaŋH/ |
| Wang Li |
/mĭwaŋH/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/miwaŋH/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
wàng |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 妄 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
wàng |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ mjangH › |
| Old Chinese |
/*maŋ-s/ |
| English | reckless |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 妄 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 12684 |
| Phonetic component |
亡 |
| Rime group |
陽 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
妄 |
| Old Chinese |
/*maŋs/ |
Definitions
妄
- improper; unrighteous
- absurd; foolish
- reckless; wild; presumptuous
- insolent; arrogant
- wilfully; recklessly; presumptuously
Compounds
Japanese
Kanji
妄
Readings
Compounds
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References
Korean
Hanja
妄 • (mang) (hangeul 망, revised mang, McCune-Reischauer mang)
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