mānmàn

scorn

Components
女 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

woman

woman

曼 sound component

  Sound component

màn

  

long

Evolution

嫚 Bronze script Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)

Bronze script

Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)
嫚 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
嫚 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
嫚 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

mān

scorn, despise; be rude, affront

 

Màn

surname Man

 

màn

insult

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Unicode

U+5ADA

Shuowen

“嫚,侮易也。从女,曼聲。”


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