藤蔓

téngmàn

noun HSK 7-9 #37,733

Meanings

1 vines
2 creeping plants
3 twining tendrils

Characters

Examples

HSK 5

藤蔓爬满了整面墙。

Téngmàn pá mǎn le zhěng miàn qiáng.

Vines covered the entire wall.

HSK 7-9

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