蛮
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barbarian; bullying; very; quite; rough; reckless
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 虫 +6
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 蛮
- Common rank
- #2,484
- Unicode
- U+86EE
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Words with 蛮
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 蛮横无理 | rude and unreasonable | |
| 蛮不讲理 | completely unreasonable | |
| 野蛮人 | barbarian | |
| 小蛮腰 | slim feminine waist; willow waist (from the name of a Tang dynasty woman Xiao Man, famed f… | |
| 触斗蛮争 | constant bickering and fighting (idiom); constantly at each other's throats; struggle for … | |
| 蛮子 | barbarian; slave servant; (old) contemptuous term for people from southern China (used by … | |
| 蛮力 | brute force | |
| 蛮皮 | recalcitrant; obstreperous | |
| 蛮干 | to act rashly; to act precipitously regardless of the consequences; reckless; foolhardy; d… | |
| 横蛮 | see 蠻橫|蛮横[man2 heng4] | |
| 蛮横 | rude and unreasonable | |
| 野蛮 | barbarous; uncivilized | |
| 蛮荒 | savage; wild; uncivilized territory | |
| 胡搅蛮缠 | (idiom) to pester endlessly | |
| 蛮夷 | common term for non-Han peoples in former times, not exclusively derogatory; barbarian | |
| 蛮缠 | to pester; to bother endlessly | |
| 蛮悍 | rude and violent; fierce and reckless | |
| 刁蛮 | crafty and unruly | |
| 蛮邸 | foreign mission (in former times); residence of barbarian emissary |