mánmàn

deceive

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components

Meaning component
yán speech
Sound component
màn long

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangmroːn
mroːns
mon
moːn
moːns
Unicodemàn

說文解字

欺也。从言曼聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica

mán, màn deceive Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components

Meaning component
yán speech

is a component form of .

Sound component
màn long

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode