HSK 4 · Emotions

浪漫 làngmàn “romantic” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 浪漫 means

  1. romantic

How to say 浪漫

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale浪làng4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale漫màn4th tone, falling

浪漫 in a sentence

  1. 好浪漫啊！

    Hǎo làngmàn a!

    How romantic!

    Sentence #891031 from Tatoeba

  2. 他是个非常浪漫的男朋友，每晚都给我送花。

    Tā shì ge fēicháng làngmàn de nánpéngyou, měi wǎn dōu gěi wǒ sòng huā.

    He’s a very romantic boyfriend – he brings me flowers every night.

    Sentence #5655387 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  3. 其实我还是觉得好浪漫哦。

    Qíshí wǒ háishi juéde hǎo làngmàn ò.

    Actually I find it quite romantic.

    Sentence #1807194 from Tatoeba

How 浪漫 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 浪 (làng) with each of its parts in a different colour
浪làngwave
  • 氵water form of 水 · shuǐMeaning part
  • 良good · liángSound part

氵 hints at the meaning (water); 良 (liáng) hints at the sound. Compare it with làng.

The character 漫 (màn) with each of its parts in a different colour
漫mànfree
  • 氵water form of 水 · shuǐMeaning part
  • 曼long · mànSound part

氵 hints at the meaning (water); 曼 (màn) hints at the sound. Compare it with màn.

How to write 浪漫

浪 10 strokes · 漫 14 strokes

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浪漫 (làngmàn) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 浪漫 (làngmàn). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 浪漫

Words with 浪

浪费làngfèi · to waste流浪liúlàng · to wander波浪bōlàng · wave

Words with 漫

漫长màncháng · very long弥漫mímàn · to fill the air漫画mànhuà · comic

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FAQs

浪漫 (làngmàn) means “romantic”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it làngmàn: làng with a 4th tone, then màn with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 浪漫 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type langman with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 浪漫 from the suggestions. Typing langman into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
浪漫 is an HSK 4 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.