(máng) - busy, occupied in Mandarin

máng

Traditional: 忙

HSK 2

#453 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

busy, occupied

Word origin

忙 (máng) 'busy' is a phono-semantic compound: the heart radical 忄(心, heart/mind) gives the sense of a preoccupied mind, and 亡 (wáng) supplies the sound.

Origin: phono-semantic compound
Root: 忄(heart, meaning) + 亡 (wáng, phonetic)

Stroke order

忙

Examples

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Have you been busy recently?

。

He is busy preparing for exams.

，。

I am too busy and have no time.

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Mum is busy in the kitchen.

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The teacher is especially busy today.

忙 (máng) - busy, occupied.

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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 忙.

帮忙bāng mángto help, to give a hand, to lend assistance

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This word is part of lesson 10.