Chinese symbol for “mantle”
地幔
dì màn
(geology) (the earth's) mantle
The closest CC-CEDICT match for mantle is 地幔 (dì màn), defined as: (geology) (the earth's) mantle.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “mantle”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 斗篷 | dǒu peng | cloak; mantle |
| 地函 | dì hán | (geology) (the earth's) mantle (Tw) |
| 衣钵 (衣缽) | yī bō | the cassock and alms bowl of a Buddhist master passed on to the favorite disciple (Buddhism); legacy |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 地幔.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 地区 (地區) | dì qū | region; area (informal or geographical term); prefecture (in China's administrative system) |
| 地方 | dì fāng | region; regional (away from the central administration) |
| 当地 (當地) | dāng dì | local |
| 土地 | tǔ dì | land; soil |
| 帷幔 | wéi màn | drapery; curtain |
| 帐幔 (帳幔) | zhàng màn | curtain |
| 幔子 | màn zi | curtain; veil |
| 壳幔 (殼幔) | ké màn | crust-mantle (geology) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “mantle”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.