# 饅

| 饅 | U+9945, &#39237; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9945 |
| ← 饄 [U+9944] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 饆 → [U+9946] |

## Translingual

| Japanese | 饅 |
| Simplified | 馒 |
| Traditional | 饅 |

### Han character

饅 (Kangxi radical 184, 食+11, 20 strokes, cangjie input 人戈日田水 (OIAWE), four-corner 8674$_7$, composition ⿰飠曼)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1424, character 24
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44346
* Dae Jaweon: page 1950, character 15
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4470, character 13
* Unihan data for U+9945

## 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 |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *moːn) : semantic 食 + phonetic 曼 (OC *moːn, *mons).

### Etymology

Possibly related to Burmese မုန့် (mun., “snack”).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): mán (man$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄇㄢˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): maan$^6$ / maan$^4$ / mun$^4$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bān / bûn / bán / bân
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^6$moe
* Xiang (Changsha, Wiktionary): monn$^2$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: mán
*** Zhuyin: ㄇㄢˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: mán
*** Wade–Giles: man$^2$
*** Yale: mán
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: man
*** Palladius: мань (manʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /män³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: maan$^6$ / maan$^4$ / mun$^4$
*** Yale: maahn / màahn / mùhn
*** Cantonese Pinyin: maan$^6$ / maan$^4$ / mun$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: man$^6$ / man$^4$ / mun$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /maːn²²/, /maːn²¹/, /muːn²¹/
* mun4 - literary;
* maan4 - vernacular;
* maan6 - vernacular (like 慢).
* Middle Chinese: man
Rime :
| Character | 饅 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 明 (4) |
| Final (韻) | 桓 (62) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 母官切 |
| Baxter | man |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /muɑn/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /mʷɑn/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /muɑn/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /mwan/ |
| Li Rong | /muɑn/ |
| Wang Li | /muɑn/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /muɑn/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | mán |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | mun$^4$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*moːn/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 饅 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 8741 |
| Phonetic component | 曼 |
| Rime group | 元 |
| Rime subdivision | 3 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 瞞 |
| Old Chinese | /*moːn/ |
| Notes | 俗米曼字 |

### Definitions

饅
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#### Compounds

* 土饅頭 / 土馒头
* 陰饅 / 阴馒
* 饅頭 / 馒头
* 饅頭果 / 馒头果
* 饅首 / 馒首

### References

* ↑ Luce, G. H. (1981) “-UN Finals (12. Bread)”, in A Comparative Word-List of Old Burmese, Chinese and Tibetan, London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, →ISBN, page 57

### Further reading

* “饅”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
* zi.tools

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* Go-on: まん (man)
* Kan-on: ばん (ban)
* Tō-on: まん (man)
* Kun: ぬた (nuta)

#### Compounds

* 餡饅(あんまん) (anman): bun with azuki bean paste filling
* 肉饅(にくまん) (nikuman): nikuman
* 豚饅(ぶたまん) (butaman): nikuman
* 饅頭(まんじゅう) (manjū): manjū, a type of bun typically with bean paste filling

## Korean
### Hanja

饅 • (man) (hangeul 만, revised man, McCune–Reischauer man, Yale man)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

饅: Hán Nôm readings: man
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