mán

barbarians

Like  insects 

Components
亦 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

also

虫 meaning component

  Meaning component

chóng

  

bug, insect

Evolution

蛮 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
蛮 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
蛮 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
蛮 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
蛮 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

mán

barbarians; barbarous, savage; barbarian; bullying; very; quite; rough; reckless

Most common words with 蛮
Freq.
Word
Meaning

very

野蛮

barbarous

蛮横

rude and unreasonable

蛮荒

savage

胡搅蛮缠

to pester endlessly (idiom)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 12.9425% of movies

1844th most common character in movies

2068th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Traditional

Unicode

U+86EE


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