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蛮

mán

HSK 6 Character Traditional 蠻

What 蛮 means

1. barbarian
2. bullying
3. very
4. quite
5. rough
6. reckless

Example sentences

• 汤姆很野蛮。
  Tom is an animal.
• 这儿蛮吵的。
  There's a lot of noise here.
• 这首歌蛮熟悉的。
  Zhè shǒu gē mán shúxī de.
  This song is familiar to me.
• 这篇漫画在中国蛮火。
  This manga is pretty popular in China.
• 汤姆看起来蛮高兴的。
  Tom looks quite happy.
• 我的名字在我的国家蛮少见的。
  My name is very rare in our country.

Words starting with 蛮

• 蛮横mán hèngrude and unreasonable
• 蛮不讲理mán bù jiǎng lǐcompletely unreasonable
• 蛮力mán lìbrute force
• 蛮子mán zibarbarian; slave servant; (old) contemptuous term for people from southern China…
• 蛮干mán gànto act rashly; to act precipitously regardless of the consequences; reckless
• 蛮皮mán pírecalcitrant; obstreperous
• 蛮荒mán huāngsavage; wild; uncivilized territory
• 蛮横无理mán hèng wú lǐrude and unreasonable
• 蛮缠mán chánto pester; to bother endlessly
• 蛮夷mán yícommon term for non-Han peoples in former times, not exclusively derogatory; barbarian
• 蛮邸mán dǐforeign mission (in former times); residence of barbarian emissary
• 蛮悍mán hànrude and violent; fierce and reckless

Words containing 蛮

• 野蛮yě mánbarbarous; uncivilized
• 小蛮腰xiǎo mán yāoslim feminine waist; willow waist…
• 野蛮人yě mán rénbarbarian
• 触斗蛮争chù dòu mán zhēngconstant bickering and fighting (idiom); constantly at each other's throats…
• 胡搅蛮缠hú jiǎo mán chán(idiom) to pester endlessly
• 刁蛮diāo máncrafty and unruly
• 横蛮hèng mánsee 蛮横

Characters that look like 蛮

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 盟méngoath; pledge; union
• 雷léithunder; (bound form; military) mine, as in 地雷; (colloquial) to shock; to stun; to astound
• 窗chuāngwindow
• 雪xuěsnow; (literary) to wipe away (a humiliation etc)
• 萤yíngfirefly; glow-worm
• 蛰zhéto hibernate

Sounds the same

Read mán, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 馒used in 馒头
• 瞒to conceal from; to keep (sb) in the dark
• 埋used in 埋怨
• 蔓used in 蔓菁
• 鳗(bound form) eel (Anguilla japonica)
• 谩to deceive
• 鬘(of woman's hair) beautiful; flower garland worn as an ornament
• 槾(tree)