wàng
forget
Phonosemantic compound. 心 represents the meaning and 亡 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*maŋ | mjang | wáng | forget |
*maŋ-s | mjangH | wàng | forget |
Statistics
HSK level 1
Appears in 75.7168% of movies
521st most common character in movies
1056th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+5FD8 |
Shuowen | “忘,不識也。从心,从亡,亡亦聲。” |
Sources
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