Where 忙 comes from
A heart 忄 faced with death 亡; 亡 also provides the pronunciation
How to write 忙 (máng, “busy”)
忙 (máng), an HSK 1 character, means “busy”, “hurriedly” and “to hurry”. It is a character whose parts combine into its meaning. On its own it is an HSK 1 word; it also forms 帮忙 (“to help”), 急忙 (“hastily”) and 连忙 (“promptly”). Japanese reads it bou, “busy”, as a JLPT N3 kanji.
- Pinyin
- máng
- Strokes
- 6
- HSK
- 1
- Radical
- 忄 (“heart”)
Stroke by stroke
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
As a left-right character it splits into 忄 (“heart”, the radical), strokes 1–3; 亡 (“to die”), strokes 4–6, written the left part first.
- Dot ㇔leftdownwards
- Dot ㇔top leftdown and right
- Vertical ㇑top leftdownwards
- Vertical ㇑topdown and right
- Horizontal ㇐centerrightwards
- Vertical-curve ㇄centerdownwards → rightwards
Japanese and Chinese
Japanese and Chinese draw all 6 strokes in the same order and direction, by our stroke-by-stroke comparison.
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Pinyin and meaning
| Pinyin | Meanings | Traditional | In words |
|---|---|---|---|
| máng second tone | busy; hurriedly; to hurry; to rush | — | 帮忙 急忙 连忙 忙碌 |
- HSK 2025 syllabus
- level 1
- 2021 standard
- level 1
- HSK 2.0
- in a level 2 word
- Words with it
- 38 in CC-CEDICT
Words with 忙
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 忙 | máng | busy; hurriedly HSK 1 |
| 帮忙 幫忙 | bāngmáng | to help; to lend a hand HSK 2 |
| 急忙 | jímáng | hastily HSK 5 |
| 连忙 連忙 | liánmáng | promptly; at once HSK 5 |
| 忙碌 | mánglù | busy; bustling HSK 5 |
| 赶忙 趕忙 | gǎnmáng | to hurry; to hasten HSK 6 |
| 繁忙 | fánmáng | busy; bustling HSK 6 |
| 匆忙 | cōngmáng | hasty; hurried HSK 6 |
| 忙活 | mánghuo | to be really busy; pressing business HSK 7-9 |
| 忙乱 忙亂 | mángluàn | rushed and muddled HSK 7-9 |
HSK words first (CC-CEDICT).
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