Meaning & readings
ridicule, laziness
Origin
The left component 忄 is a simplified form of the heart radical, used to classify characters related to emotions and mental states. The right component 曼 provides a sound hint, telling you roughly how to pronounce the character (man). Together, these parts create a character for mental attitudes like laziness and the dismissive feeling behind ridicule — a state of mind where someone is inattentive or disrespectful.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint).
Components
- 忄
- 曼
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 14
- Kangxi radical
- 61
- Grade
- Jōyō (secondary school)
- Frequency rank
- #1368 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 1
- Unicode
- U+06162