Chinese Character 馒 Meanings and components.

Form

馒

Meaning

馒 meaning[3] in English

Steamed Bread.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 馒 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are 'to eat' or … (饣) , and handsome (曼)

Its radical[1] is: 食 (shi2) which means: To Eat, Food, Animal Feed, Eclipse, .食shi2to eat

In cangjie it is written with NVAWE

How to write 馒

To write馒man2steamed bread you should write a combination of 饣shi2'to eat' … , 曼man4handsome arranged in a 吅 shape:

饣 + 曼 = 馒

馒 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 馒 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of 馒, looks as follow:

馒
Pinyin:man2 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Steamed Bread
饣
Pinyin:shi2
Meaning[3]: 'To Eat' Or 'Food' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 184)
曼
Pinyin:man4 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Handsome . Large . Long
曰
Pinyin:yue1
Meaning[3]: To Speak . To Say
罒
Pinyin:wang3 Shape:一
Meaning[3]: Net (Kangxi Radical 122)
又
Pinyin:you4
Meaning[3]: (Once) Again . Also . Both... And... . And Yet . (Used For Emphasis) Anyway

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: 部bùsection 首shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: 汉hànChinese 字zìCharacter

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