The 曼 family
曼 · màn · ㄇㄢˋ — handsome
Know 曼 and the readings of 4 more characters follow: 慢、漫、蔓、饅. In traditional Chinese, most characters carry a sound component — a phonetic — and learning the phonetic once lights up its whole family. This page is that family, drawn live from the map.
The characters
One sound, many meanings: the 部首 beside each character is the other half of the pair, the part that tells them apart.
- 慢màn · ㄇㄢˋ部首 忄 豎心旁 · heartslow93%
- 漫màn · ㄇㄢˋ部首 氵 三點水 · waterfree; unrestrained93%
- 蔓màn · ㄇㄢˋ部首 艸 · grasscreeper; to spread93%
- 饅mán · ㄇㄢˊ部首 飠 食字旁 · to eatsteamed bread; steamed dumplings84%
The percentage is our computed confidence that 曼 really signals that character’s sound — scored from how closely the readings agree and how reliably 曼 predicts the sound of every character built on it. Mean for this family: 91%.
Words this family builds
- 慢慢
- 浪漫
- 漫畫
- 漫長
- 阿曼
- 曼哈頓
- 傲慢
- 蔓延
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