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馒mán

steamed buns; steamed dumplings. 14 strokes, radical 饣, first met in HSK 6.

Pinyin mánStrokes 14Radical 饣Band HSK 6Words 1

How to write 馒

Strokes 1–3 write 饣, then strokes 4–14 write 曼.

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Stroke order chart for 馒 — 14 strokes, radical 饣

Write 馒 on the grid

Free, with no account: the app draws each stroke, then you write it and it says which stroke went wrong.

Print a 米字格 practice sheet for 馒 · the stroke-order rules

What 馒 is made of

饣 (shí, food) and 曼 (màn, long).

饣 carries the meaning — food — and 曼 carries the sound.

Words that use 馒

馒(mán)头(tou) steamed bun
指用面粉蒸成的主食

他把蒸好的馒头摆开,再盖上一层保鲜膜。He laid out the steamed buns he had made.

Lesson 621, 名厨蒸馒 · 天工开物与匠心独运 · Technological Innovation & Material Sciences

Characters that share the sound part 曼

Written with the same phonetic, so their readings tend to rhyme with each other.

慢màn漫màn

More characters with the radical 饣

All 10 of them, and what the radical means, on the 食 radical page.

饭fàn饱bǎo馆guǎn饺jiǎo餐cān食shí饼bǐng饮yǐn饰shì