蔓 — Chinese character
蔓
màn
vine, tendril, creeper
- Pinyin
- màn
- Radical
- 140 ⾋ (Grass)
- Strokes
- 14
- Components
- 艹 曼
- Formation
- ideographic — A long 曼 plant 艹 ; 曼 also provides the pronunciation
- Japanese
- 蔓 as a kanji
Common words with 蔓
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 蔓延 | màn yán | to spread; to extend |
| 藤蔓 | téng wàn | trailing or climbing stem; vine; Taiwan pr. [teng2man4] |
| 蔓越莓 | màn yuè méi | cranberry |
| 蔓草 | màn cǎo | creeper; climbing plant |
| 枝蔓 | zhī màn | branches and tendrils; fig. overcomplicated or digressive |
| 蔓生 | màn shēng | trailing plant; liana |
| 蔓菁 | mán jing | turnip |
| 滋蔓 | zī màn | (literary) to spread and grow; to proliferate |
| 蔓生植物 | màn shēng zhí wù | creeper; climbing plant |
| 荒烟蔓草 (荒煙蔓草) | huāng yān màn cǎo | lit. abandoned by men and choked with weeds; desolate (idiom) |
| 蔓越橘 | màn yuè jú | cranberry |
English words written with 蔓
蔓 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Zhuangzi 1
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.