mánmàn

deceive

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
言 meaning component

  Meaning component

yán

  

speech

曼 sound component

  Sound component

màn

  

long

Evolution

謾 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
謾 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

mán

deceive, insult; to deceive

() 

màn

to slander; to be disrespectful; to slight

Most common words with 謾
Freq.
Word
Meaning

谩骂

to hurl abuse

to slander

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3924th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Simplified

Unicode

U+8B3E

Shuowen

“謾,欺也。从言,曼聲。”


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