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忙

忙

See also: 忘

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

忙 (radical 61 心+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 心卜女 (PYV), four-corner 90010, composition ⿰忄亡)

References

  • KangXi: page 377, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10334
  • Dae Jaweon: page 703, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2272, character 16
  • Unihan data for U+5FD9

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 忙

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (亡) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
忙 *maːŋ
芒 *maːŋ, *maŋ
茫 *maːŋ
恾 *maːŋ
吂 *maːŋ, *maːŋs
汒 *maːŋ, *maŋs
朚 *maːŋ, *hmaːŋ, *maŋ, *mraːŋ, *mraːŋs
邙 *maːŋ, *maŋ
杗 *maːŋ, *maŋ
荒 *hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋs
肓 *hmaːŋ
衁 *hmaːŋ
巟 *hmaːŋ
詤 *hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋʔ, *hmaŋʔ
慌 *hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋʔ
謊 *hmaːŋʔ
喪 *smaːŋs, *smaːŋ
亡 *maŋ
望 *maŋ, *maŋs
莣 *maŋ
朢 *maŋ, *maŋs
鋩 *maŋ
硭 *maŋ
忘 *maŋ, *maŋs
网 *mlaŋʔ
罔 *mlaŋʔ
蛧 *maŋʔ
網 *mlaŋʔ
輞 *maŋʔ
棢 *maŋʔ
惘 *maŋʔ
菵 *maŋʔ
誷 *maŋʔ
魍 *maŋʔ
妄 *maŋs
盲 *mraːŋ
蝱 *mraːŋ
虻 *mraːŋ
氓 *mraːŋ
甿 *mraːŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *maːŋ) : semantic 忄 + phonetic 亡 ‎(OC *maŋ).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 忙
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 唐 (101)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 莫郎切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /mɑŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /mɑŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /mɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /maŋ/
Li
Rong		 /mɑŋ/
Wang
Li		 /mɑŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /mɑŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 máng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 忙
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 máng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ mang ›
Old
Chinese		 /*mˤaŋ/
English flurried

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 忙
Reading # 1/1
No. 12639
Phonetic
component		 亡
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 茫
Old
Chinese		 /*maːŋ/
Notes 同恾方言作茫

Definitions

忙

  1. busy; bustling
    你最近忙嗎？ / 你最近忙吗？  ―  Nǐ zuìjìn máng ma?  ―  Are you busy lately?
  2. hurried; rushed; flustered
  3. to hurry; to rush
  4. to be busy with something
    我最近忙著考試。 [MSC, trad.]
    我最近忙着考试。 [MSC, simp.]
    Wǒ zuìjìn máng zhe kǎoshì. [Pinyin]
    I've been busy with exams as of late.
  5. A surname​.

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

忙

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. busy

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

忙 • ‎(mang) (hangeul 망, McCune-Reischauer mang, Yale mang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

忙 (mang)

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