曼

màn = m + an4

handsome / large / long

曼 = 曰 + 罒 + 又 : Mnemonic symol: 曼德拉, Nelson Mandela, who is very handsome (and very large).

Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi are fighting a gladiator fight in the anthill's bathroom. First they both shout into a microphone why each of them will win for the audience, then they start to fight: Mahatma Gandhi with boxing gloves, Nelson Mandela with a fishing net.

曼 character breakdown

曼
- 又
  - ㇏
  - ㇇
- 曰
  - 一
  - 囗
- 罒

又

yòu = y + ou4

(once) again / also / both... and... / and yet / (used for emphasis) anyway

又 = ㇇ + ㇏ : And once again (又), Maud Younger (y) is preparing for battle. She's donning her boxing glove in the outhouse's bathroom (ou4), puts on a beak (㇇) and plans go give her opponent the finger (㇏).

曰

yue̅ = yu + e1

to speak / to say

曰 = 囗 + 一 : Mnemonic symbol: a microphone.

Yu the Great (yu) is selling flutes (一) in front of the elevator (e1). He has a whole box (囗) of them, and he's advertising them by using a microphone (曰).

罒

wǎng = w + ang3

net (Kangxi radical 122)

This one just looks like a fishing net. Willy walrus (w) is trying to fish frozen fish from the freezer with a net (罒) inside the anglepod's living room (ang3).

Characters with 曼 as component

慢

màn = m + an4

slow

慢 = 忄 + 曼 : The fight between Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela has been very slow, so the audience decided to help them a bit and hands each of them two flails.

漫

màn = m + an4

free / unrestrained / to inundate

漫 = 曼 + 氵 : Mahatma Gandhi (m) and Nelson Mandela (曼) just escaped the death cell. To celebrate their newly won unrestrained (漫) freedom, they toast with bottles of water (氵) in the anthill's bathroom (an4).

馒

饅

mán = m + an2

steamed bread

馒 = 曼 + 饣 : Nelson Mandela (曼) and Mahatma Gandhi (m) are having brunch together in the anthill's kitchen (an2). They're having Chinese crullers (饣) and steamed bread (馒).

蔓

mán = m + an2

turnip / Brassica campestris

蔓

màn = m + an4

creeper / to spread

蔓 = 艹 + 曼 : Mahatma Gandhi (m) is tying up Nelson Mandela (曼) in the anthill's bathroom (an4) with a vine (蔓) while Nelson rests on a sheet of artificial lawn (艹).

鳗

鰻

mán = m + an2

eel / Anguilla lostoniensis

嫚

màn = m + an4

surname Man

嫚

màn = m + an4

insult

幔

màn = m + an4