màn
long
Depicts a hand (又) covering (冃) the eye (目) to gaze far away into the distance.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 曼
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
large | ||
Manhattan island | ||
Bangkok, capital of Thailand | ||
Oman | ||
Maggie Cheung (1964-), Hong Kong actress |
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*mˤa[n]-s | manH | màn | distant |
*ma[n]-s | mjonH | màn | extended, long |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 22.2009% of movies
912th most common character in movies
1224th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+66FC |
Shuowen | “曼,引也。从又,冒聲。” |
Sources
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