蔓
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(bound form) trailing or climbing stem; vine; (bound form) to spread; to extend
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- 艸 +11
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 蔓
- Common rank
- #2,916
- Unicode
- U+8513
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 蔓 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A long 曼 plant 艹 ; 曼 also provides the pronunciation
How to remember it
creeping vine · Heisig RSH #1976
flower + mandala
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 蔓
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 蔓生植物 | creeper; climbing plant; twiner | |
| 荒烟蔓草 | lit. abandoned by men and choked with weeds; desolate (idiom) | |
| 蔓生 | trailing plant; liana; creeper; overgrown | |
| 蔓草 | creeper; climbing plant; twiner | |
| 蔓延 | to spread; to extend | |
| 蔓越橘 | cranberry | |
| 蔓越莓 | cranberry | |
| 枝蔓 | branches and tendrils; fig. overcomplicated or digressive | |
| 藤蔓 | trailing or climbing stem; vine; Taiwan pr. [teng2man4] | |
| 滋蔓 | (literary) to spread and grow; to proliferate | |
| 蔓菁 | turnip |