#Questionable kanji meanings for 慢

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edgy hemlock
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And you copy-pasted them right from JMDict, you naughty boys 👀 😂
The meanings listed are "ridicule; laziness", both of which are at best very tenuous.
I guess it caught my attention because neither seems to have anything to do with 「我慢」, which is first word NS teaches with this kanji.
Something about this seemed especially weird, so I spent a while looking up the words that use it and found the following, with frequency scores as reported by DaKanji (subtract 9 to get the base-10 logarithm of frequency in their corpus, e.g. 4.73-9=-4.27 is approx. once per 19,000 words):

我慢 がまん endurance 4.73
自慢 じまん pride 4.42
傲慢 ごうまん arrogant 3.72
慢性 まんせい chronic 3.71
怠慢 たいまん neglect 3.19
慢心 まんしん conceit 2.97
高慢 こうまん arrogant 2.94
緩慢 かんまん slow 2.65
侮慢 ぶまん insult 1.64
驕慢 きょうまん arrogant 1.48
暴慢 ぼうまん ill-mannered -

That's everything I found, not including further compounds and expressions, so I propose changing the flashcard to "pride; sluggish".

よろしくお願いサメ！shark_love

fringe fiber
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Took a look at it and changed some meanings, thanks for bringing it up^^ I think it's much more accurate to the kanji now shark_thumbsup

warm portal
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But tbf those also have nothing to do with 我慢

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# warm portal But tbf those also have nothing to do with 我慢

That's because the meaning of 我慢 has changed. Originally, it was a Buddhist term, and meant something closer to 'stopping yourself from doing something for the wrong reason/with the wrong motivation'. All the 慢 were sins/actions that took one away from the path of enlightenment

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