manji means south China, as opposed to Cathay or northern China. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.
Etymology
Variant of Latin Mangi, q.v.
name
- South China, as opposed to Cathay or northern China.“Upon crossing this river you enter the noble province of Manji […]”
noun
- A captain or skipper of a boat.“I prevailed upon the mangee of a pinnace I found laying in the creek, awaiting the arrival of a gentleman hourly expected from Vizagapatam, to convey us up the river as far as Budge Budge […].”
- A type of raised bed similar to a cot from South Asia.“Literally, 'He sat on a manji.' The manji is a small string bed. In the villages of the Punjab acknowledged leaders, spiritual and temporal, would commonly receive their followers seated on a manji.”
- A Sikh religious administrative unit.“In the Janam Sakhis and utterances of Guru Nanak there is no reference, implicit or explicit, to the subject of manjis.”
- A left-facing Japanese swastika, primarily used in Buddhism.