màn

free, unrestrained

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

is a component form of .

曼 sound component

  Sound component

màn

  

long

Evolution

漫 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
漫 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

màn

overflow of water; spreading; free; unrestrained; to inundate

Most common words with 漫
Freq.
Word
Meaning

浪漫

romantic

漫画

caricature

漫长

very long

free

漫步

to wander

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*mˤa[n]-s

manH

màn

wide, limitless


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 28.0314% of movies

1208th most common character in movies

1455th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Unicode

U+6F2B


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