IDENTITY
慢mànslow
HSK 1Top 400
CORE MEANING
slow
- Part of speech
- adjective
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.slowHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 忄heart radical (xīn)
- strokes
- 14
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰忄曼
- heart; feeling
- gives the sound màn
USAGE
Common words
慢慢mànmànslowly
慢跑mànpǎoto jog
Graded examples
请说慢一点。Qǐng shuō màn yìdiǎn.HSK2
Please speak more slowly.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 馒
LEARNING
Memory aid
A heart (忄) that lingers and stretches (曼) — slow.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #400
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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