忙máng

忙

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年之交 (friendship regardless of age). --- In Simplified Chinese (簡體), 忙 remains unchanged, formed from the heart radical 忄 (a variant of 心) on the left and 亡 on the right, depicting a restless heart as being busy. It is commonly used in phrases like 忙碌 (busy) and 忙里偷闲 (to steal a moment of leisure amid

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Shuowen

忙. The character is formed with the heart radical 忄 (representing the mind) on the left and the phonetic element 亡 on the right; in oracle bone the graph already shows a heart with the 'death' element used for its sound, conveying the sense of being pressed or hurried. The meaning 'busy' developed from the idea of the heart being under pressure.

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máng· HSK 1

忙máng

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