綿蠻

Chinese

		cotton; incessant; soft cotton; incessant; soft; downy	barbarian; bullying; very barbarian; bullying; very; quite; rough; reckless
trad. (綿蠻)		綿	蠻
simp. (绵蛮)		绵	蛮

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): miánmán

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧㄢˊ ㄇㄢˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: miánmán
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄧㄢˊ ㄇㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: miánmán
    • Wade–Giles: mien²-man²
    • Yale: myán-mán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mianman
    • Palladius: мяньмань (mjanʹmanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mi̯ɛn³⁵ män³⁵/

Noun

綿蠻

1. (literary) small birds,^[1] or the chirping of birds^[2]

   • 綿蠻黃鳥，止于丘阿。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     绵蛮黄鸟，止于丘阿。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Miánmán huángniǎo, zhǐ yú qiū'ē. [Pinyin]

     There is that little / chirping oriole,
     Resting on a bend of the mound.

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (綿蠻):

• → Vietnamese: miên man (綿蠻)

References

1. Mao Commentary, "Mian Man"
2. Zhu Xi, 《詩經集傳》 Collected Commentaries on the Classic of Poetry, "Vol. 5"