藤蔓

téngmàn

noun #37,733

Meanings

1 vines
2 creeping plants
3 twining tendrils

Characters

Examples

藤蔓爬满了整面墙。

Téngmàn pá mǎn le zhěng miàn qiáng.

Vines covered the entire wall.

他在森林里被藤蔓缠住了。

Tā zài sēnlín lǐ bèi téngmàn chánzhù le.

He got tangled up in vines in the forest.

Tips

usage

Also pronounced téngwàn - both readings are accepted, though téngmàn is more common in standard Mandarin. 蔓 has three readings: màn (vine/spread), wàn (informal vine reading), and mán (only in 蔓菁, mánjing, turnip).

Stroke Order

藤 téng

蔓 màn