氓
2 readings · tap one to hear it
(literary) common people
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 氏 +4
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 氓
- Common rank
- #3,467
- Unicode
- U+6C13
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 氓
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 流氓无产者 | lumpenproletariat (in Marxist theory) | |
| 流氓国家 | rogue state | |
| 流氓集团 | gang of hoodlums | |
| 流氓软件 | malware (computing) | |
| 流氓罪 | the crime of hooliganism | |
| 流氓 | rogue; hoodlum; gangster; immoral behavior | |
| 愚氓 | fool; stupid person |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 亡 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 亡 sound part | death, destruction; to lose; to perish | |
| 忘 | to forget, to miss, to neglect, to overlook | |
| 妄 | absurd, foolish, ignorant; rash, reckless, wild | |
| 芒 | blade; ray; silvergrass, Miscanthus sinensis | |
| 罔 | none; to deceive; to slander | |
| 邙 | a mountain in Henan province | |
| 肓 | abdominal cavity; the area between the heart and diaphragm | |
| 虻 | horsefly, gadfly |