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Mythic Mandarin

慢慢 (màn màn): meaning and stroke order

慢慢 (màn màn) means slowly; gradually.

慢慢

Simplified
慢慢
Traditional
慢慢 (same form)
Pinyin
màn màn

Stroke order of 慢慢

慢

  • màn slow
  • 14 strokes

Stroke by stroke

慢

  • màn slow
  • 14 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 慢慢

  1. màn màn
    • slowly; gradually

Radicals of the characters

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.

慢慢 in our stories

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  • 苏晴拿着手电筒,慢慢地走上了楼。

    Sū Qíng ná zhe shǒudiàntǒng mànmàn de zǒu shàng le lóu

    Su Qing takes a torch and slowly goes upstairs.

    From the story The noise upstairs HSK 3

  • 嫦娥没有办法,只好自己把药吃了,慢慢地飞上了月亮。

    Cháng'é méiyǒu bànfǎ zhǐhǎo zìjǐ bǎ yào chī le mànmàn de fēi shàng le yuèliang

    With no other way out, Chang'e swallowed it herself and slowly floated up to the moon.

    From the story Chang'e flies to the moon HSK 3

  • 袁媛有点儿担心:我们是不是慢慢变成陌生人了?

    Yuán Yuán yǒudiǎnr dānxīn wǒmen shì bu shì mànmàn biànchéng mòshēngrén le

    Yuan Yuan began to worry: are we slowly turning into strangers?

    From the story Twelve hours apart HSK 4

Stories using 慢慢

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).