Mian

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mian"

English

Etymology 1

Proper noun

Mian

1. A language spoken in Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Mian terms

Etymology 2

From Mandarin 勉 (Miǎn).

Pronunciation

• enPR: myĕn

Proper noun

Mian

1. A county of Hanzhong, Shaanxi, China.
   • 1987, The Quest for Eternity: Chinese Ceramic Sculptures from the People's Republic of China‎^[1], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 116:

     In 1978 the Administrative Office for Cultural Relics of Mian County, Shaanxi, conducted excavations of four tombs found in the course of agricultural improvements.

   • 1990, Candace J. Lewis, “Han dynasty”, in Into the Afterlife: Han and Six Dynasties Chinese Tomb Sculpture from the Schloss Collection‎^[2], Poughkeepsie, New York: Vassar College Art Gallery, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 60:

     Large numbers of pottery dogs have been excavated from tombs all over China.² For example, a pottery dog was excavated from an Eastern Han tomb at Laodaosi, Mian county, Shaanxi.³

     3. Guo Qinghua, Kaogu, 1985, no. 12, pl. 4:8.

   • 1992, Li Kangmin, “Rice-Fish Farming Systems in China: Past, Present and Future”, in Rice-Fish Research and Development in Asia‎^[3], →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 18, column 1:

     The unearthed cultural relics of Mian County not only indicate that rice-fish culture in China dates further back in the historical record, but also fills an important gap in kind in the history of rice-fish culture in China. Mian County is located in the Hanzhong basin south of Qinlin mountain, near the border of Sichuan and Shanxi Provinces.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Mian.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 勉 (zh) (Miǎn)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• Iman, amin, NIMA, Main, iman, main, mani, mnai, Mina, mina, Naim, Mani, Amin, NAMI

Manx

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mai.an/

Proper noun

Mian m

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Matthew
2. Matthew the Evangelist, one of the twelve disciples.

Mutation

Mutation of Mian

radical	lenition	eclipsis
Mian	Vian	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Manx.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.