曼

Top indexing radical 曰 (Kangxi #73) — graphically a wider variant of 日, traditionally meaning 'to say' (a mouth with the breath of speech inside). In 曼 this is a stylised remnant of the cap or kerchief in the original picture, where the ancient form showed a hand pulling a long veil down over the eyes. Read here as a shaped cap, not as 'speech.'

Middle 5 strokes — the horizontal-eye component (Kangxi radical #122 in its sideways form), here representing the eye itself peering out from under the cloth above. The picture is an eye half-veiled, conveying the languid, drawn-out quality that became 'graceful, prolonged' in 曼妙, 曼延.

Bottom 2 strokes — a right hand, the basic action component. In 曼 the hand is the one drawing the long veil downward over the eye, completing the slow-motion picture. Same hand in 友, 取, 受 — wherever a deliberate manual action is depicted.