紊

紊 U+7D0A, 紊 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7D0A ← 紉 [U+7D09] CJK Unified Ideographs 紋 → [U+7D0B]

Translingual

Han character

紊 (Kangxi radical 120, 糸+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 卜大女戈火 (YKVIF), four-corner 0090₃, composition ⿱文糸)

Derived characters

• 𫱚, 𢱨, 𪶸

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 916, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27261
• Dae Jaweon: page 1345, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3376, character 6
• Unihan data for U+7D0A

Chinese

simp. and trad.		紊

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (文) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
旻	*mrɯn
旼	*mrɯn
汶	*mrɯn, *mɯn, *mɯns
忞	*mrɯn
盿	*mrɯn
枚	*mɯːl
玫	*mɯːl
玟	*mɯːl
文	*mɯn
紋	*mɯn
蚊	*mɯn
雯	*mɯn
彣	*mɯn
馼	*mɯn
鳼	*mɯn
鼤	*mɯn, *mɯns
抆	*mɯnʔ, *mɯns
紊	*mɯns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *mɯns): phonetic 文 (OC *mɯn) + semantic 糸 (“silk”)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wěn, wèn

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄣˇ, ㄨㄣˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): man⁶ / man⁵ / leon⁶
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): mong⁵ / muong⁵
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): būn
• Wu (Northern, Wugniu): ⁶ven

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wěn
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄣˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wǔn
    • Wade–Giles: wên³
    • Yale: wěn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: woen
    • Palladius: вэнь (vɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wən²¹⁴/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wèn
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄣˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wùn
    • Wade–Giles: wên⁴
    • Yale: wèn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wenn
    • Palladius: вэнь (vɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wən⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: man⁶ / man⁵ / leon⁶
    • Yale: mahn / máhn / leuhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: man⁶ / man⁵ / loen⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: men⁶ / men⁵ / lên⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɐn²²/, /mɐn¹³/, /lɵn²²/

Note: leon6 - erroneous reading in Cantonese.

• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: mong⁵
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: meōng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɔŋ¹¹/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: muong⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /muoŋ²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: būn
    • Tâi-lô: būn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: bun
    • IPA (Xiamen): /bun²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /bun⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /bun²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /bun³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /bun³³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai, Suzhou)
    • Wugniu: ⁶ven
    • MiniDict: ven^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³ven
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /vən²³/
    • Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /vən²³¹/

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• Middle Chinese: mjunH

Rime
Character	紊
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	文 (59)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	亡運切
Baxter	mjunH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mɨunH/
Pan Wuyun	/miunH/
Shao Rongfen	/miuənH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/munH/
Li Rong	/miuənH/
Wang Li	/mĭuənH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/mi̯uənH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	wèn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	man6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*mɯns/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	紊
Reading #	1/1
No.	13026
Phonetic component	文
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	問
Old Chinese	/*mɯns/

Definitions

紊

1. disorderly; chaotic; dysfunctional; confused

Synonyms

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• 一塌糊塗 / 一塌糊涂
• 亂 / 乱 (luàn)
• 亂七八糟 / 乱七八糟 (luànqībāzāo)
• 亂雜 / 乱杂 (luànzá) (literary)
• 凌亂 (língluàn)
• 嘈亂 / 嘈乱 (cáoluàn) (literary, of sound)
• 大鼎炒狗蟻 / 大鼎炒狗蚁 (Hokkien)
• 挐亂 / 挐乱 (Hokkien)
• 擾擾 / 扰扰 (rǎorǎo)
• 散亂 / 散乱 (sǎnluàn)
• 有七無八 / 有七无八 (Hokkien)
• 殽亂 / 淆乱 (xiáoluàn) (literary)
• 混亂 / 混乱 (hùnluàn)
• 烏七八糟 / 乌七八糟 (wūqībāzāo)
• 烏哩單刀 / 乌哩单刀 (Cantonese)
• 無序 / 无序 (wúxù)
• 狼戾 (Hakka, literary)
• 狼狼戾戾 (Hakka)
• 狼藉 (lángjí)
• 立立亂 / 立立乱 (lap⁶ lap^6-2 lyun⁶) (Cantonese)
• 糊塗 / 糊涂
• 糾紛 / 纠纷 (jiūfēn) (literary)
• 紛亂 / 纷乱 (fēnluàn)
• 紊亂 / 紊乱 (wěnluàn)
• 紛雜 / 纷杂 (fēnzá) (literary)
• 繚亂 / 缭乱 (liáoluàn) (formal)
• 肆亂 / 肆乱 (sìluàn) (literary)
• 荊棘 / 荆棘 (jīngjí) (literary, figurative)
• 蕪雜 / 芜杂 (wúzá)
• 雜亂 / 杂乱 (záluàn)
• 雜醪膏 / 杂醪膏 (Xiamen Hokkien, Quanzhou Hokkien)
• 鬼打樣 / 鬼打样 (Hakka)

Compounds

• 有條不紊 / 有条不紊 (yǒutiáobùwèn)
• 淆紊
• 紊亂 / 紊乱 (wěnluàn)

References

• “紊”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “紊”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 246.

Japanese

Kanji

紊

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. to fall into confusion
2. disorder

Readings

• Go-on: もん (mon)
• Kan-on: ぶん (bun)
• Kan’yō-on: びん (bin)
• Kun: みだす (midasu, 紊す)、みだれる (midareru, 紊れる)

Compounds

• 紊(びん)乱(らん) (binran), 紊(ぶん)乱(らん) (bunran)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
紊
ぶん Hyōgai
kan'on

From Middle Chinese 紊 (MC mjunH).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bɯ̟̃ɴ]

Affix

紊(ぶん) • (bun) 

1. to disturb, to confuse, to disorder

Korean

Hanja

紊 • (mun) (hangeul 문, revised mun, McCune–Reischauer mun, Yale mun)

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