南蠻

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Chinese

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south
barbarian; bullying; very
barbarian; bullying; very; quite; rough; reckless
 
trad. (南蠻)
simp. (南蛮)
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Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (8) (4)
Final () (159) (69)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I II
Fanqie
Baxter nom maen
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/nʌm/ /mˠan/
Pan
Wuyun
/nəm/ /mᵚan/
Shao
Rongfen
/nɒm/ /mɐn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/nəm/ /maɨn/
Li
Rong
/nᴀm/ /man/
Wang
Li
/nɒm/ /man/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/năm/ /man/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
nán mán
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
naam4 maan4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
nán mán
Middle
Chinese
‹ nom › ‹ maen ›
Old
Chinese
/*nˁ[ə]m/ /*mˁro[n]/
English south southern foreigner

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 9355 8610
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*nuːm/ /*mroːn/
Notes

Proper noun

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南蠻

  1. (derogatory, chiefly historical) the "Southern Barbarians", a catch-all term for the Yue and other peoples living south of the Chinese cultural sphere (chiefly) in Antiquity

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