What 蔓 means
A climbing vine or tendril, and by extension, spreading growth.
野有蔓草 (“wild fields have spreading vines”) belongs to the pre-Qin textual tradition of the Book of Songs, an early collection of Chinese poems. Shuowen Jiezi, a Chinese character dictionary compiled in 100–121 CE, glosses 蔓 as 葛属, a group of climbing plants. 艹 signals a plant; 曼 supplies the sound. Chinese 蔓延 extends the vine sense to spreading. Japanese つる (“tsu-ru”) means vine; 蔓延る is read はびこる (“ha-bi-ko-ru”), “to spread.”
A lone 蔓 may leave its language and intended reading unclear.
Who writes 蔓
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How to type or find 蔓
- Search it as
- vine · tendril · 蔓延 · 藤蔓 · 蔓延る
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
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\8513Chinese input method
Type pinyin man, then select 蔓 from the candidates.
Japanese input method
Type tsuru for 蔓; for the verb, type habikoru and select 蔓延る.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
蔓
HTML hex
蔓
CSS content
content: "\8513";
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URL encoded
%E8%94%93
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
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