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馒

mán

HSK 5 Character Traditional 饅

What 馒 means

1. used in {馒头|mán tou}

Example sentences

• 我给你吃个馒头。
  I'll give you a mantou to eat.
• 昨天我买了两个馒头。
  Zuótiān wǒ mǎi le liǎng gè mántou.
  Yesterday I bought two steamed buns.
• 对不起，馒头卖完了。
  Duìbuqǐ, mántou màiwán le.
  I'm sorry, we're all out of manti.
• 馒头和馍馍有区别吗？
  Mántou hé mómo yǒu qūbié ma?
  Is there a difference between steamed buns and steamed bread?

Words starting with 馒

• 馒头mán tousteamed bun

Words containing 馒

• 吃人血馒头chī rén xuè mán touto take advantage of others' misfortune (idiom)
• 不蒸馒头争口气bù zhēng mán tou zhēng kǒu qìnot to be crushed (idiom); to be determined to have one's revenge

Characters built on 曼

These share the phonetic component 曼 (màn), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 慢mànslow
• 漫mànfree; unrestrained; to inundate
• 蔓màncreeper; to spread
• 幔màncurtain
• 鳗mán(bound form) eel (Anguilla japonica)
• 谩mánto deceive
• 缦mànplain thin silk; slow; unadorned
• 墁mànto plaster

Characters that look like 馒

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

• 懂dǒngto understand; to comprehend
• 镀dùto plate (with gold, silver etc); (prefix) -plated
• 馑jǐntime of famine or crop failure
• 槿jǐnHibiscus syriacus; transient
• 镌juānto engrave (on wood or stone); to inscribe
• 锺zhōngnonstandard simplified variant of 钟

Sounds the same

Read mán, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 蛮barbarian; bullying; very
• 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)