忘
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to forget; to overlook; to neglect
- HSK 3.0
- Level 1
- Old HSK
- Level 3
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 心 +3
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 忘
- Common rank
- #1,224
- Unicode
- U+5FD8
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 忘
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 忘记 | to forget | |
| 前事不忘，后事之师 | don't forget past events, they can guide you in future (idiom); benefit from past experien… | |
| 忘年之交 | (idiom) friends with a significant age gap | |
| 见利忘义 | (idiom) to abandon moral principles in the pursuit of profit | |
| 过目不忘 | to have a highly retentive memory; to have sth imprinted in one's memory | |
| 见色忘义 | to forget loyalty when in love; hoes before bros | |
| 得意忘形 | so pleased as to lose one's sense of measure; beside oneself with joy | |
| 贵人多忘事 | see 貴人多忘|贵人多忘[gui4 ren2 duo1 wang4] | |
| 忘年交 | friends with a significant age gap | |
| 贵人多忘 | an eminent person has short memory (idiom) | |
| 提笔忘字 | to have difficulty remembering how to write Chinese characters | |
| 见色忘友 | to neglect one's friends when smitten with a new love | |
| 忘不了 | cannot forget | |
| 发行备忘录 | offering memorandum (for public stock issue); publication memorandum | |
| 公而忘私 | for the common good and forgetting personal interests (idiom); to behave altruistically; s… | |
| 忘其所以 | see 忘乎所以[wang4 hu1 suo3 yi3] | |
| 舍生忘死 | bravery with no thought of personal safety (idiom); risking life and limb; undaunted by pe… | |
| 忘性 | forgetfulness | |
| 忘机 | free of worldly concerns; above the fray; at peace with the world | |
| 吃水不忘挖井人 | see 吃水不忘掘井人[chi1 shui3 bu4 wang4 jue2 jing3 ren2] |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 亡 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 亡 sound part | death, destruction; to lose; to perish | |
| 妄 | absurd, foolish, ignorant; rash, reckless, wild | |
| 芒 | blade; ray; silvergrass, Miscanthus sinensis | |
| 罔 | none; to deceive; to slander | |
| 氓 | people, subjects, vassals | |
| 邙 | a mountain in Henan province | |
| 肓 | abdominal cavity; the area between the heart and diaphragm | |
| 虻 | horsefly, gadfly |