mán
deceive
Phonosemantic compound. 目 represents the meaning and 㒼 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 瞞
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to conceal | ||
to conceal from | ||
to conceal or deceive in a report | ||
to cross the sea by a trick (idiom) | ||
to fool |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*mˤ[o][r] | man | mán | be deceived |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 18.5488% of movies
1635th most common character in movies
2405th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+779E |
Shuowen | “瞞，平目也。从目，聲。” |
Sources
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