鏝

See also: 镘

鏝 U+93DD, 鏝 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-93DD ← 鏜 [U+93DC] CJK Unified Ideographs 鏞 → [U+93DE]

Translingual

Han character

鏝 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+11, 19 strokes, cangjie input 金日田水 (CAWE), four-corner 8614₇, composition ⿰釒曼)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1320, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40807
• Dae Jaweon: page 1819, character 36
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4248, character 13
• Unihan data for U+93DD

Chinese

Glyph origin

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

	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, *moːns) : semantic 金 (“gold”) + phonetic 曼 (OC *moːn, *mons).

Etymology 1

trad.		鏝
simp.		镘
alternative forms		漫 幕

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “from 幕?”)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): màn (man⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄢˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: màn
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: màn
    • Wade–Giles: man⁴
    • Yale: màn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mann
    • Palladius: мань (manʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /män⁵¹/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mànr
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄢˋㄦ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mànr
    • Wade–Giles: man⁴-ʼrh
    • Yale: mànr
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mall
    • Palladius: маньр (manʹr)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɑɻ⁵¹/

Definitions

鏝

1. side of a coin without written characters; heads

   Antonym: 字 (zì)

2. (archaic) money; cash

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 鏝 (“side of a coin without written characters”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	鏝兒
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	鏝兒
	Wanrong	鏝兒
	Xi'an	鏝兒
	Xining	鏝兒
	Xuzhou	鏝兒
Southwestern Mandarin	Wuhan	鏝
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	幕
Cantonese	Hong Kong	公
Gan	Nanchang	鏝
	Lichuan	鏝兒
	Pingxiang	鏝子, 番子
Jin	Taiyuan	幕兒, 鏝兒
	Pingyao	眼兒
	Shenmu	鏝兒
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	覆
Southern Min	Xiamen	合
	Leizhou	背
Wu	Ningbo	烏
	Wenzhou	鏝
Xiang	Changsha	杠子

Compounds

• 巴鏝／巴镘
• 撒鏝／撒镘
• 敲鏝兒／敲镘儿
• 統鏝／统镘
• 鏝兒／镘儿

 

Etymology 2

trad.		鏝
simp.		镘
alternative forms		槾

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): màn (man⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): maan⁶ / maan⁴
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): mang⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: màn
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: màn
    • Wade–Giles: man⁴
    • Yale: màn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mann
    • Palladius: мань (manʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /män⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: maan⁶ / maan⁴
    • Yale: maahn / màahn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: maan⁶ / maan⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: man⁶ / man⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /maːn²²/, /maːn²¹/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian, Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: mang⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /maŋ²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: man, manH

Rime
Character	鏝	鏝
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	明 (4)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	桓 (62)	桓 (62)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	母官切	莫半切
Baxter	man	manH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/muɑn/	/muɑnH/
Pan Wuyun	/mʷɑn/	/mʷɑnH/
Shao Rongfen	/muɑn/	/muɑnH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/mwan/	/mwanH/
Li Rong	/muɑn/	/muɑnH/
Wang Li	/muɑn/	/muɑnH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/muɑn/	/muɑnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	mán	màn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mun4	mun6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*moːn/, /*moːns/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	鏝	鏝
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	8746	8751
Phonetic component	曼	曼
Rime group	元	元
Rime subdivision	3	3
Corresponding MC rime	瞞	縵
Old Chinese	/*moːn/	/*moːns/

Definitions

鏝

1. (literary) trowel

Compounds

• 圬鏝／圬镘

 

References

• “鏝”, 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–

Etymology 3

trad.		鏝
simp.		镘

Combination of the radical 金 (“money”) and short form of 曼城 (“Manchester City F.C.”) to satirize the football club for poaching high-quality players with high prices.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): maan⁶

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: maan⁶
    • Yale: maahn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: maan⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: man⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /maːn²²/

Definitions

鏝

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, soccer, neologism, Internet slang, humorous or derogatory) Manchester City F.C.

See also

• 獌 (“Manchester United”)

References

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “镘”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 151.

Japanese

Kanji

鏝

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: まん (man)
• Kan-on: ばん (ban)
• Kun: こて (kote)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
鏝
こて Hyōgai
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 鏝 – see the following entry.

【こて】 [noun] trowel [noun] (beauty) curling iron

(This term, 鏝, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

鏝 • (man) (hangeul 만, revised man, McCune–Reischauer man, Yale man)

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