máng
silvergrass
Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 亡 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 芒
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
rays of light | ||
mango (loanword) | ||
awn (of cereals) | ||
sharp point | ||
to show off one's ability |
Component uses
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*m̥ˤaŋʔ | xwangX | huǎng | obscure, confused |
*mˤaŋ | mang | máng | awn, beard of grain |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 5.3180% of movies
2373rd most common character in movies
2251st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 6 |
Unicode | U+8292 |
Shuowen | “芒,艸耑。从艸,亾聲。” |
Sources
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

