wàng
absurd
Phonosemantic compound. 女 represents the meaning and 亡 represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 妄
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
delusion | ||
absurd | ||
to try in vain | ||
egotistical | ||
to act blindly without thinking (idiom) |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*maŋ-s | mjangH | wàng | reckless |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 9.4506% of movies
2130th most common character in movies
2097th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 6 |
Unicode | U+5984 |
Shuowen | “妄，亂也。从女，亡聲。” |
Sources
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