Chinese
忙
máng
busy; bustling
- Phono-semantic compound 形聲
- HSK 1
- TOCFL 1
- radical 心
- 6 strokes
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Origin
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *maːŋ): semantic 忄 + phonetic 亡 (OC *maŋ). Doublet of 忘 (OC *maŋ, *maŋs).
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Lineage
- meaningChinese心 “heart (Classifier: 顆／颗 m; 個／个 c; 粒 mn)”
- soundChinese亡 “to run away; to flee; to escape”
Sources
- HSK / TOCFL word lists — Facts (levels)
- 教育部《國語辭典簡編本》 (Taiwan MOE) — CC BY-ND 3.0 TW
- Wiktionary (via Wiktextract / kaikki.org) — CC BY-SA 4.0
- Wiktionary: 忙