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Mythic Mandarin

闷 (mèn): meaning and stroke order

闷 (mèn) means bored, depressed, melancholy, sealed, airtight, tightly closed, stuffy, shut indoors.

闷

Simplified
闷
Traditional
悶
Pinyin
mèn · mēn

Stroke order of 闷

闷

  • mēn stuffy; shut indoors
  • mèn bored; depressed
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 悶

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 闷

  1. mèn Traditional 悶
    • bored
    • depressed
    • melancholy
    • sealed
    • airtight
    • tightly closed
  2. mēn Traditional 悶
    • stuffy
    • shut indoors
    • to smother
    • to cover tightly

Radical and structure

闷
Radical 门 (Kangxi radical 169) in its simplified form · 7 strokes · built from 门 and 心

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.

Words with 闷

闷 in our stories

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  • 有一天，他终于醒了过来，发现四周又黑又闷，连伸一下手都做不到。

    yǒu yì tiān tā zhōngyú xǐng le guòlai fāxiàn sìzhōu yòu hēi yòu mēn lián shēn yíxià shǒu dōu zuò bú dào

    One day he finally woke and found everything around him dark and stifling; he could not even stretch out a hand.

    From the story Pangu separates heaven and earth HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 闷

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).