lãng mạn

Etymology
. Originally a parallelistic word meaning "self-indulgent." The "romantic" meaning must have come from, given that its modern Japanese pronunciation is the only plausible reflex that sounds similar to its European etymon. Other reflexes such as 🇨🇬 làngmàn, 🇨🇬 long6 maan6, or 🇨🇬, all with the additional consonant, cannot sufficiently explain as a supposed phonetic transcription of a European etymon (such as 🇨🇬, , , , etc.) where no such consonant occurs. It has been claimed that was the first one to repurpose 🇨🇬 as a phonetic transcription into Japanese, particularly in.