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U+534D, 卍
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-534D

[U+534C]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+534E]
U+0FD6, ࿖
LEFT-FACING SVASTI SIGN

[U+0FD5]
Tibetan
[U+0FD7]

Translingual

Stroke order
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Han character

(Kangxi radical 24, +4, 6 strokes, cangjie input 弓難 (NX), four-corner 12217, composition or ⿻⿱⿰⿰丨一)

  1. The left-facing swastika.

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 156, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2724
  • Dae Jaweon: page 356, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 51, character 15
  • Unihan data for U+534D

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Pronunciation


Definitions

  1. swastika

Derived terms

See also

Japanese

Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

  • Go-on: もん (mon)
  • Kan-on: ばん (ban)
  • Kan’yō-on: まん (man)
  • Kun: まんじ (manji, )
  on Japanese Wikipedia

Etymology

Kanji in this term
まんじ
Hyōgai
kun'yomi
Alternative spellings
卍字
万字

From the on'yomi readings of 卍字 or 万字.[1]

Sense 3, the youth slang usage, comes from the similarity of the word's pronunciation to マジ (maji, seriously, for real).

Pronunciation

Noun

(まんじ) (manji

  1. swastika, especially a left-facing swastika
  2. (cartography) indicates Buddhist temples on maps
  3. (youth slang) awesome, hype

Derived terms

See also

References

  1. ^ on the Japanese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ja
  2. 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.

Korean

Hanja

(eum (man))

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Vietnamese

Han character

: Hán Nôm readings: vạn

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