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Translingual

Han character

(radical 109 +11, 16 strokes, cangjie input 月山廿中月 (BUTLB), four-corner 64027, composition)

  1. deceive, lie
  2. eyes half-closed

References

  • KangXi: page 816, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23649
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1229, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2509, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+779E

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*men, *meːnʔ, *maːn
*boːn, *moːn
*moːn
*moːn
*moːn, *mon, *muːn
*moːn
*moːn, *mons
滿 *moːnʔ
*moːnʔ
*moːnʔ, *muːnʔ, *muːns
*muːn

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (4)
Final () (62)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/muɑn/
Pan
Wuyun
/mʷɑn/
Shao
Rongfen
/muɑn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/mwan/
Li
Rong
/muɑn/
Wang
Li
/muɑn/
Bernard
Karlgren
/muɑn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
mán
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
mán
Middle
Chinese
‹ man ›
Old
Chinese
/*mˤ[o][r]/
English be deceived

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. 9033
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*moːn/
Notes 駿

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References


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(man)

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