傲慢
ào màn · HSK 7
arrogant
👑😤 ào sounds like OW + màn like MAN — the OW-MAN who scoffs at everyone
傲 (ào) means proud/arrogant on its own, 慢 (màn) usually means slow but here carries the older sense of rude or dismissive. Together they form a compound: someone so proud they treat others with contempt.
傲 — person 亻 + 敖 (phonetic, 'roam/haughty')
傲 is a semantic-phonetic compound: the person radical 亻 gives the meaning (a human attitude), while 敖 supplies the sound 'ao' and a hint of 'roaming free, unrestrained.' The original sense was a person acting aloof or unrestrained, which shifted to today's meanings of 'proud, arrogant, haughty.'
慢 — heart radical 忄 + 曼 màn (phonetic)
慢 is a phonetic-semantic compound. The heart radical 忄 signals a feeling or mental state, while 曼 supplies the sound màn. Originally it meant 'lazy' or 'negligent,' a slack state of mind, and later shifted to its modern sense of 'slow.'