莽
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(bound form) dense growth of grass; (literary) vast; boundless; (bound form) boorish; reckless
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 艸 +7
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 莽
- Common rank
- #3,099
- Unicode
- U+83BD
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
rude · Heisig RSH #1871
flower + chihuahua + two hands
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 莽
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 草莽 | a rank growth of grass; uncultivated land; wilderness | |
| 莽草 | Chinese anise (Ilicium anisatum, a shrub with poisonous leaves) | |
| 王莽 | Wang Mang (45 BC-23 AD), usurped power and reigned 9-23 between the former and later Han | |
| 莽汉 | boor | |
| 鲁莽 | hot-headed; impulsive; reckless | |
| 浪莽 | vast | |
| 粗莽 | brusque; rough; boorish; crude | |
| 苍莽 | boundless | |
| 莽撞 | rash; reckless | |
| 卤莽 | variant of 魯莽|鲁莽[lu3 mang3] | |
| 榛莽 | (literary) luxuriant vegetation |
Sound family
These characters use 莽 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 莽 sound part | thicket, underbrush; rude, impertinent | |
| 蟒 | python, boa constrictor | |
| 漭 | vast, expansive |