Chinese characters : Query result

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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