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Definition 2024


Translingual

Han character

(radical 50 +11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 中月日田水 (LBAWE), four-corner 46247, composition)

  1. curtain, screen, tent

References

  • KangXi: page 335, character 28
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9050
  • Dae Jaweon: page 642, character 31
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 752, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+5E54

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*mroːn, *moːns, *mons
*mroːn
*mroːn, *mroːns, *mon, *moːn, *moːns
*mroːns
*mroːns
*mroːns, *moːns
*moːn, *mons
*moːn
*moːn, *mons
*moːn, *mons
*moːn, *moːns
*moːn, *moːns
*moːn
*moːns
*moːns
*mons

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (4)
Final () (62)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/muɑnH/
Pan
Wuyun
/mʷɑnH/
Shao
Rongfen
/muɑnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/mwanH/
Li
Rong
/muɑnH/
Wang
Li
/muɑnH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/muɑnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
màn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
màn
Middle
Chinese
‹ manH ›
Old
Chinese
/*mˤa[n]-s/
English curtain, tent

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
Reading # 1/1
No. 8749
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*moːns/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 孝幔
  • 帆幔
  • 帷幔
  • 幃幔帏幔
  • 幔亭
  • 幔子
  • 幔室
  • 幔帳幔帐 (mànzhàng)
  • 簾幔帘幔
  • 靈幔灵幔

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

  • 幔幕 (まんまく, mammaku)

Korean

Hanja

(man) (hangeul , revised man, McCune-Reischauer man)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(mạn, màn)

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