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mán

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mán Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
mán | man2
English translation
barbarian
bullying
very
quite
rough
reckless
barbarians; barbarous, rude, savage

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About mán

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Number of strokes

12

Traditional form

mán

Contains the radical

chóng

Part of speech

Adverb / 副词 fù cí Fù cí

Learning hint

Like  insects  chóng

Etymology of mán

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Type

ideographic

Positional decomposition

亦虫

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Example sentences using mán

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母马容忍 róngrěn 后代 hòudài 粗暴 cū bào 野蛮 yěmán de 程度 chéngdù Jiào rén 意外 yìwài .

Mares are surprisingly tolerant of the roughness and rudeness of their own offspring.

河里 de 很多, diào 线 xiàn shǎng de 鱼饵 yú ěr mán hǎo , 这些 zhè xiē 越来越 yuè lái yuè 狡猾 jiǎohuá ,今天 jīntiān 就是 jiù shì 上钩 shàng gōu .

There are plenty of fish in the river, and good baits on my line, but the fish are getting clever and refuse to rise to the

ràng 他们 tā men 蛮干 mán gàn hǎo ( 相信 xiāngxìn 他们 tā men gǎn 蛮干 mán gàn )!

Let them do their worst! ( I defy them to do their worse! )

piàn dòng , jiù yòng mán gōng !

If you can't coax her , bring her by force.

相信 xiāngxìn 他们 tā men gǎn 蛮干 mán gàn !

I defy them to do their worse!

Words with mán

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
mán very mán
野蛮 yěmán barbarous野蠻
蛮横 mán hèng rude and unreasonable蠻橫
蛮荒 mán huāng savage蠻荒
胡搅蛮缠 hú jiǎo mán chán to pester endlessly (idiom)胡攪蠻纏
蛮干 mán gàn to act rashly蠻幹
蛮不讲理 mán bù jiǎng lǐ completely unreasonable蠻不講理
刁蛮 diāo mán crafty and unruly刁蠻
蛮子 mán zi barbarian蠻子
蛮夷 mán yí barbarian蠻夷
蛮横无理 mán hèng wú lǐ rude and unreasonable蠻橫無理
横蛮 hèng mán rude and unreasonable橫蠻
蛮缠 mán chán to pester蠻纏
蛮悍 mán hàn rude and violent蠻悍

mán Decomposition & Compounds

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mán Decomposition

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