男

See also: 勇
男 U+7537, 男
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7537
← 甶
[U+7536] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 甸 →
[U+7538]

Translingual

Stroke order
Japanese stroke order

Han character

男 (radical 102, 田+2, 7 strokes, cangjie input 田大尸 (WKS), four-corner 60427, composition ⿱田力)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 759, character 2
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21730
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1169, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2529, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+7537

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 男
alt. forms 㽖
侽

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 男
Shang Western Zhou Spring and Autumn Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Bronze inscriptions Chu Slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 田 (“field”) + 力 (“strength”) – man providing the strength for agricultural labour.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 男
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 泥 (8)
Final (韻) 覃 (159)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 那含切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /nʌm/
Pan
Wuyun		 /nəm/
Shao
Rongfen		 /nɒm/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /nəm/
Li
Rong		 /nᴀm/
Wang
Li		 /nɒm/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /năm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 nán
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 男
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 nán
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ nom ›
Old
Chinese		 /*nˤ[ə]m/
English man, male

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 男
Reading # 1/1
No. 9354
Phonetic
component		 男
Rime
group		 侵
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 南
Old
Chinese		 /*nuːm/

Definitions

男

  1. man; male
    男人  ―  nánrén  ―  man
    男孩  ―  nánhái  ―  boy
  2. son
    長男 / 长男  ―  zhǎngnán  ―  eldest son
  3. baron, lowest of five ranks of Chinese aristocracy (五等爵位) under the Zhou dynasty
  4. A surname​.

Synonyms

  • 公 (gōng, “male (of animals)”)

Antonyms

  • 女 (nǚ, “female”)

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

男

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
男
おとこ
Grade: 1
kun’yomi

/woto2ko1/: [wotwoko] → [wotoko] → [otoko]. Cognate with the verb wot- "to become young" with ko as a male suffix. See also 乙女 (otome), 息子 (musuko), 彦 (hiko).

Pronunciation

Noun

男 (hiragana おとこ, rōmaji otoko, historical hiragana をとこ)

  1. man; male person.

Antonyms

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
男
お
Grade: 1
kun’yomi

/wo/: [wo] → [o]. The male equivalent to me "female, woman".

Pronunciation

Alternative forms

Noun

男 (hiragana お, rōmaji o, historical hiragana を)

  1. male
  2. a man
  3. a husband
Derived terms

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
男
おのこ
Grade: 1
Irregular

/wo2ko1/: [wonwoko] → [wonoko] → onoko. From wo "male" + no2 (genitive) + ko1 "man, child".

Pronunciation

  • (Irregular reading)

Alternative forms

Noun

男 (hiragana おのこ, rōmaji onoko, historical hiragana をのこ)

  1. a boy

Etymology 4

Kanji in this term
男
なん
Grade: 1
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 男 (nom).

Pronunciation

Noun

男 (hiragana なん, rōmaji nan)

  1. man
  2. son

References

  1. 1 2 3 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

男 (eumhun 사내 남 (sanae nam))

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Kunigami

Kanji

男 (hiragana いけが, romaji ikega)

Noun

男 (hiragana いけが, romaji ikega)

  1. man

Oki-No-Erabu

Kanji

男 (hiragana いぃんが, romaji yinga)

Noun

男 (hiragana いぃんが, romaji yinga)

  1. man

Okinawan

Kanji

男 (hiragana ゐきが, romaji wikiga)

Noun

男 (hiragana ゐきが, romaji wikiga)

  1. man

Derived terms

  • 男しーじゃ (ゐきがしーじゃ, wikiga shīja, “older brother”)

Vietnamese

Han character

男 (nam, khương)

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Yoron

Kanji

男 (hiragana をぅいが, romaji wuiga)

Noun

男 (hiragana をぅいが, romaji wuiga)

  1. man
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