拗蠻

Chinese

		stubborn; contrary; bend stubborn; contrary; bend; break in two	barbarian; bullying; very barbarian; bullying; very; quite; rough; reckless
trad. (拗蠻)		拗	蠻
simp. (拗蛮)		拗	蛮

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): àomán

(Zhuyin): ㄠˋ ㄇㄢˊ
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): âu-màn
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): áu-bân

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: àomán
  - Zhuyin: ㄠˋ ㄇㄢˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: àomán
  - Wade–Giles: ao⁴-man²
  - Yale: àu-mán
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: awman
  - Palladius: аомань (aomanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀɑʊ̯⁵¹ män³⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: âu-màn
  - Hakka Romanization System: au^ˊ man^ˇ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: au¹ man²
  - Sinological IPA: /au̯²⁴ man¹¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese, Singapore)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: áu-bân
  - Tâi-lô: áu-bân
  - Phofsit Daibuun: aw'baan
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /au⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ban¹³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /au⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ ban²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /au⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ ban²³/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Taipei): /au⁵³⁻⁴⁴ ban²⁴/
  - IPA (Singapore): /au⁴²⁻²⁴ ban²⁴/

Noun

拗蠻

(literary or Singapore Hokkien) stubborn and unreasonable person

Descendants

→ Indonesian: auban
→ Peranakan Indonesian: auwban

Adjective

拗蠻

(Taiwanese Hokkien) arrogant and domineering
(Singapore Hokkien) selfish

Adverb

拗蠻

(Hakka) quite; rather; considerably

Synonyms

相當／相当 (xiāngdāng)
比較／比较 (bǐjiào)
蠻／蛮 (mán)
挺 (tǐng)
(Hokkien) 不止, 不止仔