You Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Speech (yán) Kangxi Strokes: 18 Page 1179, Entry 01 Pronounced man. Shuowen Jiezi (Explanation of Simple and Compound Characters): To deceive. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji): Those below are afraid and submissive, speaking falsehoods and deceits, relying on deception to please and curry favor. Book of Jin (Jinshu): To betray loyalty and deceive one's ruler is called man. Also, Guangya (Expanded Elegance): To be relaxed or leisurely. Guangyun (Broad Rhymes): To be slighting or disrespectful. History of the Former Han (Hanshu): To be idle, sluggish, and disrespectful to an improper degree. Also, to slander or defame. Xunzi (Master Xun): To be non-compliant to one's face and to slander them behind their back. Also, to be profane or obscene. History of the Former Han (Hanshu): There were rebellious and profane words in the letters of Chunyu Zhang. Also, to be diffuse and without focus. Zhuangzi: He turned the pages to explain the twelve classics to Lao Dan, who interrupted him, saying it was too diffuse and he wished to hear the essence. Pronounced man. Yangzi Fangyan (Regional Dialects): Mantai means to be afraid. In the Yan and Dai regions, this is called mantai. Also, qianxuan means intelligent; this is called man in the Qin region. Pronounced mian. Leipian (Categorized Dictionary): To be intelligent and crafty. One source says it means to deceive. History of the Former Han (Hanshu): Using crafty, auspicious words to apologize to Tian Fen. Shigu Note: Man is like being crafty; to speak auspicious words with feigned intent. Jiyun (Compilation of Rhymes): Sometimes written in a variant form. Pronounced man (falling tone). History of the Former Han (Hanshu): Exclusively engaging in deceptive acts to evade their taxes. Shigu Note: Man refers to deceitful words. Pronounced man (falling tone). Also, the same as man (disrespectful). Rites of Zhou (Zhouli): The common people are fond of bullying, hypocrisy, deception, disrespect, and absurdity. These three things must also be prohibited. In some editions, man is written as man (disrespectful). Pronounced man (falling tone). Leipian (Categorized Dictionary): Deceitful words. Also, Zengyun (Additions to Rhymes): For the time being. Commonly used interchangeably with man (to overflow). Zihuibu (Supplement to the Collection of Characters): One form is written as a variant.