曼
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handsome; large; long
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 曰 +7
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 曼
- Common rank
- #805
- Unicode
- U+66FC
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Formation & memory
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Words with 曼
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 安达曼海 | Andaman Sea | |
| 塔斯曼尼亚 | Tasmania | |
| 塔斯曼尼亚岛 | Tasmania | |
| 罗曼语族 | Romance language family | |
| 曼德拉 | Nelson Mandela (1918-2013), South African ANC politician, president of South Africa 1994-1… | |
| 日耳曼语 | Germanic language | |
| 安达曼岛 | Andaman islands; variant of 安達曼群島|安达曼群岛[An1 da2 man4 Qun2 dao3] | |
| 曼达尔 | Mandal (city in Agder, Norway) | |
| 曼切斯特 | Manchester; also written 曼徹斯特|曼彻斯特 | |
| 安达曼群岛 | Andaman Islands | |
| 萨拉曼卡 | Salamanca, Spain | |
| 曼尼托巴 | Manitoba, province of Canada | |
| 曼波鱼 | ocean sunfish (Mola mola) | |
| 开曼群岛 | Cayman Islands | |
| 加里曼丹岛 | Kalimantan island (Indonesian name for Borneo island) | |
| 日耳曼 | Germanic | |
| 利伯曼 | Liberman, Lieberman or Liebermann (name) | |
| 安曼 | Amman, capital of Jordan | |
| 加里曼丹 | Kalimantan (Indonesian part of the island of Borneo) | |
| 罗曼司 | (loanword) romance |
Sound family
These characters use 曼 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 曼 sound part | long, extended, vast; beautiful | |
| 慢 | slowly, leisurely; sluggish | |
| 漫 | inundating; exaggerated | |
| 鳗 | eel | |
| 幔 | curtain, screen, tent | |
| 馒 | steamed buns; steamed dumplings | |
| 嫚 | to scorn, to despise; to be rude to, to affront | |
| 谩 | to slight, to insult; to deceive | |
| 熳 | to spread | |
| 缦 | plain silk; simple, plain | |
| 墁 | to plaster; to pave | |
| 镘 | trowel |