拗蠻

Chinese

		stubborn; contrary; bend stubborn; contrary; bend; break in two	barbarian; bullying; very barbarian; bullying; very; quite; rough; reckless
trad. (拗蠻)		拗	蠻
simp. (拗蛮)		拗	蛮

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): àomán

  (Zhuyin): ㄠˋ ㄇㄢˊ

• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): âu-màn
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): áu-bân

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: àomán
    • Zhuyin: ㄠˋ ㄇㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: àomán
    • Wade–Giles: ao⁴-man²
    • Yale: àu-mán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: awman
    • Palladius: аомань (aomanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀɑʊ̯⁵¹ män³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: âu-màn
    • Hakka Romanization System: au^ˊ man^ˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: au¹ man²
    • Sinological IPA: /au̯²⁴ man¹¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese, Singapore)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: áu-bân
    • Tâi-lô: áu-bân
    • Phofsit Daibuun: aw'baan
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /au⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ban¹³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /au⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ ban²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /au⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ ban²³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei): /au⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ban²⁴/
    • IPA (Singapore): /au⁴²⁻²⁴ ban²⁴/

Noun

拗蠻

1. (literary or Singapore Hokkien) stubborn and unreasonable person

Descendants

• → Indonesian: auban
• → Peranakan Indonesian: auwban

Adjective

拗蠻

1. (Taiwanese Hokkien) arrogant and domineering
2. (Singapore Hokkien) selfish

Adverb

拗蠻

1. (Hakka) quite; rather; considerably

Synonyms

• 相當／相当 (xiāngdāng)
• 比較／比较 (bǐjiào)
• 蠻／蛮 (mán)
• 挺 (tǐng)
• (Hokkien) 不止, 不止仔