芒

🇹🇼🇭🇰🇨🇳🇯🇵🇰🇷

mango

HSK 7

Nature →Plants →Trees

máng

ボウ、コウ、モウ

すすき、のぎ、のげ

망

Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 亡 represents the sound.

Components

艹 grass (top)+ 亡 deceased =

芒 mango

艹 Meaning component

cao grass (top)

grass

艹 is a component form of 艸.

亡 Phonetic component

wáng deceased

old variant of 亡[wáng]

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Notes

Historical Evolution

Seal

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical

Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)

芒

Regular

Modern

Chinese

芒 [máng]

awn (of cereals); arista (of grain); tip (of a blade); Miscanthus sinensis (type of grass); variant of 邙, Mt Mang at Luoyang in Henan

Japanese

芒のぎ同音

noun arista; awn; (grain) beard

薄、芒ススキ、すすき同音

noun usually kana Chinese silvergrass (Miscanthus sinensis); maiden grass; susuki grass

Example Sentences

CHINESE WORDS (29)

光芒 [guāngmáng] #6,418

rays of light

芒果 [mángguǒ] #14,445

mango (loanword)

锋芒 [fēngmáng] #23,854

tip (of pencil, spear etc)

锋芒 [fēngmáng] #23,854

tip (of pencil, spear etc)

锋芒毕露 [fēngmángbìlù] #36,728

to show off one's ability

锋芒毕露 [fēngmángbìlù] #36,728

to show off one's ability

芒刺在背 [mángcìzàibèi] #42,551

feeling brambles and thorns in one's back (idiom)

芒硝 [mángxiāo] #41,798

mirabilite (Na2SO4x10H2O)

初露锋芒 [chūlùfēngmáng] #55,879

first sign of budding talent

初露锋芒 [chūlùfēngmáng] #55,879

first sign of budding talent

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JAPANESE WORDS (12)

pentagram (as used in divination, etc.)

六芒星 [ろくぼうせい] #56,522

hexagram

薄 [ススキ] #62,284

Chinese silvergrass (Miscanthus sinensis)

五芒 [ごぼう] #90,316

pentagram

芒種 [ぼうしゅ] #182,003

"grain in ear" solar term (approx. June 6, when awns begin to grow on grains)

⭐ 芒果 [マンゴー] #264,701

mango (Mangifera indica)

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