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mán

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mán Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
mán | man2
English translation
barbarians; barbarous, rude, savage

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About mán

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Number of strokes

25

Traditional form

mán

Contains the radical

chóng

Part of speech

Non-morpheme / 非语素字 Fēi yǔsù zì

Learning hint

insect

Etymology of mán

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

䜌虫

Semantic compound

chóng

Phonetic compound

luán

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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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