幔
màn

curtain

Phonosemantic compound. 巾 represents the meaning and 曼 represents the sound.

Components

巾
巾 Meaning component
jīn cloth
曼
曼 Sound component
màn long

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartmanHmˤa[n]-scurtain, tent
Zhengzhangmoːns
Unicodemɑ̀n

說文解字

幕也。从巾曼聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)