mǎng
thicket
A dog 犬 surrounded by weeds 艹, 廾
Components
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Warring States (475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
mǎng
thicket, underbrush; poisonous; thick weeds; luxuriant growth; Illicium anisatum, a shrub with poisonous leaves; impertinent
Most common words with 莽
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
hot-headed | ||
rude and impetuous | ||
thick weeds | ||
Wang Mang (45 BC-23 AD), usurped power and reigned 9-23 between the former and later Han | ||
hot-headed |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 4.0045% of movies
2706th most common character in movies
2714th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+83BD |
Shuowen | “莽，南昌謂犬善逐兔艸中為莽。从犬从茻，茻亦聲。” |
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