Si Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Water (shuǐ) Man Kangxi strokes: 15 Page 644, Entry 18 Archaic script. Pronounced mǎn. Shuowen Jiezi (Explanation of Graphs and Analysis of Characters) states: To be full or overflowing. Book of Documents (Shangshu), Chapter on the Counsels of the Great Yu: Do not be self-satisfied (man). Commentary states: Man refers to being full and substantial. Correct Meaning states: Man is used as a metaphor for vessels, therefore it means full and substantial. Guanzi, Discourse on Hegemony: When territory is vast but ungoverned, it is called earth-full (tu man). When the population is numerous but unmanaged, it is called human-full (ren man). When military might is strong but does not cease, it is called martial-full (wu man). Also a surname. During the Jin dynasty, there was a man named Man Fen. Also pronounced mèn. The same as the term for vexed. Shuowen Jiezi (Explanation of Graphs and Analysis of Characters): Refers to being vexed or depressed. Sometimes written in a simplified form. Book of Han (Hanshu), Biography of Huo Guang: Worried, vexed, and unable to eat. Also rhyming with miǎn. Poem by Su Shi: The official from the southern capital also studies the Way, not pitying his withered intestines but boasting of his full-fed brain. Asking when you will visit Jinhua another day, you should arrive in time to travel together to the Garden of the Immortals. Also written as a variant form.