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Mythic Mandarin

放慢 (fàng màn): meaning and stroke order

放慢 (fàng màn) means to reduce the pace (of movements, steps etc).

放慢

Simplified
放慢
Traditional
放慢 (same form)
Pinyin
fàng màn

Stroke order of 放慢

放

  • fàng to put; to place
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

慢

  • màn slow
  • 14 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 放慢

  1. fàng màn
    • to reduce the pace (of movements, steps etc)

Radicals of the characters

放
Radical 攴 (Kangxi radical 66) · 8 strokes · 方 on the left, 攵 on the right
慢
Radical 心 (Kangxi radical 61) · 14 strokes · 忄 on the left, 曼 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

放慢 in our stories

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  • 就在这时，老鲁放慢脚步，退到她身边：“别想还剩十二公里，只想下一根路灯。跑到那儿，再想下一根。”

    jiù zài zhèshí Lǎo Lǔ fàngmàn jiǎobù tuì dào tā shēnbiān bié xiǎng hái shèng shí'èr gōnglǐ zhǐ xiǎng xià yì gēn lùdēng pǎo dào nàr zài xiǎng xià yì gēn

    Just then Old Lu slowed and dropped back beside her: "Don't think about the twelve kilometres left. Think only about the next lamp post. When you get there, think about the next one."

    From the story The four-hour balloon HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 放慢

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).