蠻
mán HSK7

barbarians

蛮 (蠻) mán
very adverb
quite; rather; very (a colloquial intensifier)

这家店的菜味道蛮正宗的。

zhè jiā diàn de cài wèi​dao mán zhèng​zōng de.

The food at this restaurant is quite authentic.

barbarian adjective
referring to non-Han ethnic groups in ancient southern China or being uncivilized

古代将南方的少数民族称为“蛮”。

gǔ​dài jiāng nán​fāng de shǎo​shù mín​zú chēng​wéi“ mán”.

In ancient times, ethnic minorities in the south were referred to as 'Man'.

reckless adjective
rough; bullying; unreasonable or acting without consideration

你这样蛮干是不行的，得想个好办法。

nǐ zhè​yàng mán​gàn shì bù xíng de, děi xiǎng gè hǎo bàn​fǎ.

You can't just act recklessly like this; you need to find a better way.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,068th most common 33.6 per million
Movie subtitles
1,843rd most common 25.4 per million appears in 13% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
20.7 per million appears in 8% of films
Written text
33.9 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Simplified
蛮
Strokes
25
Unicode
U+883B

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)