芒
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awn (of cereals); arista (of grain); tip (of a blade); Miscanthus sinensis (type of grass); variant of 邙, Mt Mang at Luoyang in Henan
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 艸 +3
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 芒
- Common rank
- #2,228
- Unicode
- U+8292
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
mango · Heisig RSH #1724
flower + perish
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 芒
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 针尖儿对麦芒儿 | see 針尖對麥芒|针尖对麦芒[zhen1 jian1 dui4 mai4 mang2] | |
| 佛兰芒语 | Flemish (language) | |
| 五芒星 | five-pointed star; pentagram | |
| 针尖对麦芒 | sharply opposed to each other, with neither prepared to give an inch (idiom) | |
| 芒刺在背 | feeling brambles and thorns in one's back (idiom); uneasy and nervous; to be on pins and n… | |
| 芒康县 | Markam, a county in Chamdo City 昌都市[Chang1 du1 Shi4], Tibet | |
| 六芒星 | six-pointed star; hexagram | |
| 光芒万丈 | (idiom) boundless radiance; splendor | |
| 万丈光芒 | see 光芒萬丈|光芒万丈[guang1 mang2 wan4 zhang4] | |
| 阿芒拿 | (chemistry) (loanword) ammonal | |
| 芒市 | Mangshi, a county-level city in Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture 德宏傣族景頗族自治州|德宏傣… | |
| 光芒 | rays of light; brilliant rays; radiance | |
| 弗拉芒 | Flemish, inhabitant of Flanders (Belgium) | |
| 芒草 | Miscanthus (genus of grass) | |
| 初露锋芒 | first sign of budding talent; to display one's ability for the first time | |
| 芒果 | (loanword) mango | |
| 芒种 | Mangzhong or Grain in Beard, 9th of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 6th-20th June | |
| 芒果汁 | mango juice | |
| 锋芒毕露 | to show off one's ability | |
| 芒康 | see 芒康縣|芒康县[Mang2 kang1 Xian4] |
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 | |
| 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 |