Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements

漫: cartoon, involuntarily

Also: unrestrained, in spite of oneself, corrupt

JLPT N114 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

氵 carries the meaning · 曼 gives the sound

14 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

マンman · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 漫画まんがcartoon; comic; comic strip
  • 漫才まんざい
  • 漫画家まんがかcartoonist; comic book artist; manga artist
  • 放漫ほうまんwhimsy; looseness; indiscretion
  • 漫談まんだんchat; desultory conversation
  • 散漫さんまんvague; desultory; distracted

Also read みだりに, そぞろ, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Imagine three raindrops falling—that's sanzui! Whenever you see these three dots on the left side of a kanji, think of water, liquids, or anything that flows.”
More in the 氵 water story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
氵

Also built on water (氵)

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曼

Also built on 曼

漫 takes the 曼 family's reading, マン (man).

Also read マン

3 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
漫 cartoon · 氵
vs慢 ridicule · 忄
漫 has 氵 where 慢 has 忄.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · màn

Same form: 漫 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
漫 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
漫 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin màn most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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