猛 měng
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 犭 — dog
- Made of
- 犭 dog 孟 first in a series
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
猛然
měngrán
suddenly; abruptly
Characters in this word
然 rán
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 灬 — fire
- Made of
- 肰 dog meat 灬 fire
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 听到熟悉的旋律，他猛然想起二十年前那场离别。 Tīng dào shúxī de xuánlǜ, tā měngrán xiǎng qǐ èrshí nián qián nà chǎng líbié. Hearing the familiar melody, he suddenly remembered that farewell twenty years earlier.
- 她猛然回过头，发现身后站着一个陌生人。 Tā měngrán huí guò tóu, fāxiàn shēn hòu zhàn zhe yí ge mòshēngrén. She suddenly turned her head and found a stranger standing behind her.
- 他猛然醒悟，原来自己一直想错了方向。 Tā měngrán xǐngwù, yuánlái zìjǐ yìzhí xiǎng cuò le fāngxiàng. He suddenly realised he had been thinking in the wrong direction all along.
Related words
- 猛 měng fierce; sudden; violent
- 猛烈 měngliè violent; fierce; intense
- 凶猛 xiōngměng fierce; violent; ferocious
- 迅猛 xùnměng rapid and vigorous; swift and fierce
- 大自然 dàzìrán nature
- 忽然 hūrán suddenly
- 然后 ránhòu then; after that
- 虽然 suīrán although
- 必然 bìrán inevitable; certain to happen
- 当然 dāngrán of course
- 果然 guǒrán sure enough; as expected
- 仍然 réngrán still