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惘

惘

Translingual

Han character

惘 (radical 61 心+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 心月廿女 (PBTV), four-corner 97020, composition ⿰忄罔)

  1. disconcerted, dejected, discouraged

References

  • KangXi: page 391, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10809
  • Dae Jaweon: page 725, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2315, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+60D8

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 惘

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (亡) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
忙 *maːŋ
芒 *maːŋ, *maŋ
茫 *maːŋ
恾 *maːŋ
吂 *maːŋ, *maːŋs
汒 *maːŋ, *maŋs
朚 *maːŋ, *hmaːŋ, *maŋ, *mraːŋ, *mraːŋs
邙 *maːŋ, *maŋ
杗 *maːŋ, *maŋ
荒 *hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋs
肓 *hmaːŋ
衁 *hmaːŋ
巟 *hmaːŋ
詤 *hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋʔ, *hmaŋʔ
慌 *hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋʔ
謊 *hmaːŋʔ
喪 *smaːŋs, *smaːŋ
亡 *maŋ
望 *maŋ, *maŋs
莣 *maŋ
朢 *maŋ, *maŋs
鋩 *maŋ
硭 *maŋ
忘 *maŋ, *maŋs
网 *mlaŋʔ
罔 *mlaŋʔ
蛧 *maŋʔ
網 *mlaŋʔ
輞 *maŋʔ
棢 *maŋʔ
惘 *maŋʔ
菵 *maŋʔ
誷 *maŋʔ
魍 *maŋʔ
妄 *maŋs
盲 *mraːŋ
蝱 *mraːŋ
虻 *mraːŋ
氓 *mraːŋ
甿 *mraːŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *maŋʔ) : semantic 心 ‎(“heart”) + phonetic 罔 ‎(OC *mlaŋʔ).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 惘
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 陽 (106)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 文兩切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /mʉɐŋX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /mʷiɐŋX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /miuɑŋX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /muaŋX/
Li
Rong		 /miuaŋX/
Wang
Li		 /mĭwaŋX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /miwaŋX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 wǎng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 惘
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 wǎng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ mjangX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*maŋʔ/
English dejected

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 惘
Reading # 1/1
No. 12679
Phonetic
component		 亡
Rime
group		 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 网
Old
Chinese		 /*maŋʔ/

Definitions

惘

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Compounds

  • 悵惘／怅惘
  • 悽惘／凄惘
  • 惘惘
  • 惘然
  • 惘然如失
  • 惘然若失
  • 惘若有失
  • 迷惘 (míwǎng)

Japanese

Kanji

惘

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

惘 • ‎(mang) (hangeul 망, revised mang, McCune-Reischauer mang, Yale mang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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References

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