Chinese characters : List with all references

Character: 萬

Modern (Beijing) reading: wàn

Preclassic Old Chinese: mans (~ -rs)

Classic Old Chinese: manh

Western Han Chinese: manh

Eastern Han Chinese: mwanh

Early Postclassic Chinese: mwàn

Middle Postclassic Chinese: mwǝ̀n

Late Postclassic Chinese: mwǝ̀n

Middle Chinese: mwǝ̀n

English meaning : be ten-thousand, myriad

Russian meaning[s]: 1) десять тысяч; тьма; мириады; бесчисленный, несметный; 2) все, всякие; все- (префикс); 3) во что бы то ни стало; во всяком случае; перед отрицанием ни в коем случае, ни за что; 4) крайне, в высшей степени; 5) Вань (фамилия)

Comments: Also used for a homonymous *mans (~-rs) 'a ritual dance'. Standard Sino-Viet. is vạn (there also is a variant vàn). For *m- cf. Xiamen ban⁶, Chaozhou bueŋ⁶.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 140

Four-angle index: 4001

Karlgren code: 0267 a-b

Go-on: mon

Kan-on: ban

Japanese reading: man;ban;yorozu

Vietnamese reading: muôn

Jianchuan Bai: ŋü2

Dali Bai: ŋü3

Bijiang Bai: va4

Shijing occurrences: 38.1, 38.2

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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *m[ua]n

Meaning: sorcery, magic

Chinese: 萬 *mans (~-rs) ritual dance.

Tibetan: sman she-demons worshipped by common folk; herbs, medicine, drug.

Burmese: manh to practice magic, sorcery.

Kachin: lǝmum¹ a witch.

Comments: PG *mVn medicine.

Chinese Dialects :

Number: 1677

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 萬

MC description : 山合三去願微

ZIHUI: 8001 1986

Beijing: uan 3

Jinan: uã 3

Xi'an: vã 3

Taiyuan: vä̃ 3

Hankou: uan 3

Chengdu: uan 3

Yangzhou: uɛ̃ 3

Suzhou: ve_ 32 (lit.); me_ 32

Wenzhou: va 32 (lit.); ma 32

Changsha: uan 31 (lit.); uan 32

Shuangfeng: uã 32

Nanchang: uan 32

Meixian: van 3

Guangzhou: mān 32

Xiamen: man 32

Chaozhou: bueŋ 32

Fuzhou: uaŋ 32

Shanghai: ve_ 32

Zhongyuan yinyun: van 3

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