惶
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(bound form) fear; dread; anxiety; trepidation
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 心 +9
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 惶
- Common rank
- #2,714
- Unicode
- U+60F6
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
fearful · Heisig RSH #1805
state of mind + 皇 emperor
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 惶
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 惶恐不安 | anxious; panicky | |
| 人心惶惶 | (idiom) everyone is anxious; (of a group of people) to feel anxious | |
| 惊惶失措 | see 驚慌失措|惊慌失措[jing1 huang1 shi1 cuo4] | |
| 张惶 | variant of 張皇|张皇[zhang1 huang2] | |
| 惊惶 | panic-stricken | |
| 诚惶诚恐 | in fear and trepidation (idiom); in reverence before your majesty (court formula of humili… | |
| 震惶 | to terrify | |
| 惶恐 | terrified | |
| 仓惶 | variant of 倉皇|仓皇[cang1 huang2] | |
| 苍惶 | variant of 倉皇|仓皇[cang1 huang2] | |
| 凄惶 | distressed and terrified; distraught (literary) | |
| 惶惑 | anxious and perplexed; uneasy and confused; suspicious and fearful | |
| 惶惶 | alarmed; anxious | |
| 惶遽 | frightened; anxious | |
| 恓惶 | busy and restless; unhappy |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 皇 — compare how they read.