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饅 = 曼 + 食

饅 is a Japanese kanji written with 20 strokes, listed here under the keyword “bean jam”. It is built from 曼 (mandala) and 食 (eat). In Remembering the Kanji by James W. Heisig it is frame 2998.

Keyword
bean jam
RTK frame
2998
Strokes
20
On'yomi (Sino-Japanese reading)
マン
Script
Japanese kanji
Also known as
bean-jam dumpling, фасольное варенье
Same glyph as a traditional Chinese hanzi
饅 steamed bread

Decomposition

Primary decomposition

  1. 曼 mandala
  2. 食 eat

How to find 饅 without knowing its reading

On KumiJi Glyph Explorer, open the parts search and type “mandala” + “eat”. 饅 is among the results, together with every other character containing the same shapes.

Open 饅 in the interactive kanji search to expand every part down to its smallest pieces, add your own names and mnemonic stories, or search for other characters by their parts.