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鳗

mán

Character Traditional 鰻

What 鳗 means

1. bound formeel (Anguilla japonica)

Words starting with 鳗

• 鳗鱼mán yúeel
• 鳗鲡mán líeel; Japanese freshwater eel (Anguilla japonica)

Words containing 鳗

• 盲鳗máng mánhagfish (jawless proto-fish of class Myxini)
• 电鳗diàn mánelectric eel
• 黑鳗hēi mánshort-finned eel (Anguilla australis)
• 鲈鳗lú mán(Taiwan) giant mottled eel (Anguilla marmorata), aka swamp eel or marbled eel…
• 澳洲鳗鲡Ào zhōu mán líshort-finned eel (Anguilla australis)
• 七鳃鳗qī sāi mánlamprey (jawless proto-fish of family Petromyzontidae)
• 八目鳗bā mù mánlamprey (jawless proto-fish of family Petromyzontidae)
• 芦鳗lú mánvariant of 鲈鳗

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
• 馒mánused in 馒头
• 谩mánto deceive
• 缦mànplain thin silk; slow; unadorned
• 墁mànto plaster

Characters that look like 鳗

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

• 耀yàobrilliant; glorious
• 瞻zhānto gaze; to view
• 鞭biānwhip or lash; to flog; to whip
• 鳕xuěcodfish; Gadus macrocephalus
• 躇chúused in 踌躇
• 蹿cuānto leap up; (colloquial) to gush out; to spurt out

Sounds the same

Read mán, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 馒used in 馒头
• 蛮barbarian; bullying; very
• 瞒to conceal from; to keep (sb) in the dark
• 埋used in 埋怨
• 蔓used in 蔓菁
• 谩to deceive
• 鬘(of woman's hair) beautiful; flower garland worn as an ornament
• 槾(tree)