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CHINESE CHARACTER

mán

蛮

蛮

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very

Numbered pinyin
man2
English meanings
pretty, very, quite, more or less, pretty much, fairly, rather, somewhat, to some extent

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BUILDING BLOCKS

Structure & components

Top–bottom structure

Top–bottom arrangement: top 亦; bottom 虫.

This breakdown describes the written shape. A component's meaning does not always explain the meaning of the whole character.

Decomposition reference

⿱亦虫

Source: Make Me a Hanzi (LGPL-3.0-or-later)
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Homophones

Characters with the same pinyin, regardless of tone.

Example sentences

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  1. 01

    mán蛮lì力。

    Brute force.

  2. 02

    yěmán野蛮。

    Barbaric.

  3. 03

    mán蛮héng横wúlǐ无理。

    Rude and unreasonable.

  4. 04

    yǐ以lǐ理fú服rén人。

    Convince with reason.

  5. 05

    tōng通qíng情dá达lǐ理。

    Reasonable.

  6. 06

    wénmíng文明yǒu有lǐ礼。

    Civil and polite.

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  • 野蛮