Sino-Tibetan etymology : List with all references

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *mrān

Meaning: ethnic name, barbarian

Chinese: 蠻 *mrān Southern barbarian.

Tibetan: bran slave, servant.

Burmese: mran-ma Burma, Burmese.

Chinese characters :

Character: 蠻

Modern (Beijing) reading: mán

Preclassic Old Chinese: mrān

Classic Old Chinese: mrān

Western Han Chinese: mrān

Eastern Han Chinese: mrān

Early Postclassic Chinese: mạ̄n

Middle Postclassic Chinese: mạ̄n

Late Postclassic Chinese: mạ̄n

Middle Chinese: mạn

English meaning : Southern barbarian

Russian meaning[s]: 1) древн. мань (племена на юге Китая); 2) варвар; варварский; дикий; дерзкий; своевольничать

Comments: Also used in the compound ....mian-mán "small-looking, pretty, little". For *m- cf. Xiamen ban², Fuzhou, Chaozhou maŋ².

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 142

Four-angle index: 8756

Karlgren code: 0178 p

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Chinese Dialects :

Number: 2579

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 蠻

MC description : 山開二平刪明

ZIHUI: 5875 1642

Beijing: man 12

Jinan: mã 12

Xi'an: mã 12

Taiyuan: mä̃ 1

Hankou: man 12

Chengdu: man 12

Yangzhou: mɛ̃ 12; mɛ̃ 11

Suzhou: me_ 12

Wenzhou: ma 12

Changsha: man 12

Shuangfeng: mã 12

Nanchang: man 31

Meixian: man 12

Guangzhou: mān 12

Xiamen: ban 12

Chaozhou: maŋ 12

Fuzhou: maŋ 12

Shanghai: me_ 32

Zhongyuan yinyun: man 12

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