# 嫚

| 嫚 | U+5ADA, &#23258; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5ADA |
| ← 嫙 [U+5AD9] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 嫛 → [U+5ADB] |

## Translingual
### Han character

嫚 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+11, 14 strokes, cangjie input 女日田水 (VAWE), four-corner 4644$_7$, composition ⿰女曼)
* despise, insult, scorn
* be rude, affront

#### Derived characters

* 𬞽

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 269, character 26
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6644
* Dae Jaweon: page 537, character 17
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1077, character 4
* Unihan data for U+5ADA

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 獌 | *mroːn, *moːns, *mons |
| 鬘 | *mroːn |
| 謾 | *mroːn, *mroːns, *mon, *moːn, *moːns |
| 慢 | *mroːns |
| 嫚 | *mroːns |
| 縵 | *mroːns, *moːns |
| 曼 | *moːn, *mons |
| 饅 | *moːn |
| 蔓 | *moːn, *mons |
| 鰻 | *moːn, *mons |
| 墁 | *moːn, *moːns |
| 鏝 | *moːn, *moːns |
| 槾 | *moːn |
| 漫 | *moːns |
| 幔 | *moːns |
| 蟃 | *mons |

### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): màn (man$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄇㄢˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): maan$^6$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: màn
*** Zhuyin: ㄇㄢˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: màn
*** Wade–Giles: man$^4$
*** Yale: màn
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mann
*** Palladius: мань (manʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /män⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: maan$^6$
*** Yale: maahn
*** Cantonese Pinyin: maan$^6$
*** Guangdong Romanization: man$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /maːn²²/
* Middle Chinese: maenH
Rime :
| Character | 嫚 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 明 (4) |
| Final (韻) | 刪 (69) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | II |
| Fanqie | 謨晏切 |
| Baxter | maenH |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /mˠan$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /mᵚan$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /mɐn$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /maɨn$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /man$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /man$^H$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /man$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | màn |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | maan$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*mroːns/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 嫚 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 8736 |
| Phonetic component | 曼 |
| Rime group | 元 |
| Rime subdivision | 3 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 慢 |
| Old Chinese | /*mroːns/ |

#### Definitions

嫚
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#### Compounds

* 嫚嫚
* 嫚罵／嫚骂 (mànmà)
* 詆嫚／诋嫚

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): mān (man$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄇㄢ
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: mān
*** Zhuyin: ㄇㄢ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: man
*** Wade–Giles: man$^1$
*** Yale: mān
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mhan
*** Palladius: мань (manʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /män⁵⁵/
** (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: mānr
*** Zhuyin: ㄇㄢㄦ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: manr
*** Wade–Giles: man$^1$-ʼrh
*** Yale: mānr
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mhal
*** Palladius: маньр (manʹr)
*** Sinological IPA : /mɑɻ⁵⁵/

#### Definitions

嫚
* (dialect) girl

### References

* Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), B00697

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* scorn
* despise
* be rude
* affront

#### Readings

* On (unclassified): ばん (ban)、まん (man)、べん (ben)、めん (men)、えん (en)
* Kun: あなどる (anadoru)、けがす (kegasu)、おこたる (okotaru)、おごる (ogoru)

## Korean
### Hanja

嫚 (eum 만 (man))
* despise
* belittle
* make dirty
* beautiful (원)

## Vietnamese
### Han character

嫚: Hán Nôm readings: mạn
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#### References

* Nom Foundation