罔

罔 (Kangxi radical 122, 网+3, 8 strokes, cangjie input 月廿卜女 (BTYV), four-corner 7722₀, composition ⿵𦉰亡 or ⿵冂𠅇)

• 𠵜, 𫰻, 惘, 𭡐, 𣶈, 𪱣, 棢, 焹, 𪻫, 䃃, 網, 𦖉, 蝄, 𠬏, 誷(𫍬), 輞(辋), 龬, 魍, 䱩, 菵

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 946, character 30
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28211
• Dae Jaweon: page 1387, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2914, character 2
• Unihan data for U+7F54

Compare Burmese မင်း (mang:, “monarch; royal; high official”).

罔 (*muaŋʔ)

1. official

• Hill, Nathan W. (2017) “Songs of the Bailang: A New Transcription with Etymological Commentary”, in Bulletin de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient‎, volume 103, pages 386—429

Historical forms of the character 罔
Shang		Western Zhou	Spring and Autumn	Warring States			Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)			Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Qin slip script	Shizhoupian script	Ancient script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *mlaŋʔ) : semantic 网 (“net”) + phonetic 亡 (OC *maŋ).

“not have; not”

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ma (“not”). Cognate with 亡 (OC *maŋ), with an Old Chinese auxiliary verb derivative suffix *-ʔ.

罔

1. ^† Alternative form of 網 / 网
2. (literary) to not have
3. (literary) not
4. (literary) to deceive; to hide (truth) from
5. (archaic) to falsely accuse; to wrong (someone); to slander

   Synonym: 冤枉

6. (literary, archaic) to be confused; to be perplexed (on thought)

   • 學而不思則罔，思而不學則殆。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     学而不思则罔，思而不学则殆。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE

     Xué ér bù sī zé wǎng, sī ér bù xué zé dài.

     If you learn without thinking, you will be confused; if you think without learning, you will be endangered.

7. (Eastern Min, with verbs and adjectives) the more... the more

   伊罔吹會利害，茲隻𡅏行墿其儂就將許件大衣罔包罔緊去。 [Eastern Min, trad.]
   伊罔吹会利害，兹只𡅏行𰉣其侬就将许件大衣罔包罔紧去。 [Eastern Min, simp.]

   ĭ muōng chuŏi-â̤-*lê-hâi, cī-ciéh lā̤ giàng-*duô-gì-nè̤ng cêu ciŏng hī-giông-*duâi-ĭ muōng-*bău muōng-*gīng-kó̤. / [Bàng-uâ-cê / IPA]

   The harder he blew, the tighter that walking man wrapped his coat around himself.

8. (Eastern Min, with verbs) while (usually used as a pair: doing X while doing Y)
9. (Eastern Min) although

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. net (あみ)^[1]
2. stupid, illogical (くらい)
3. deceive (しいる)
4. no, none (ない)

• Go-on: もう (mō)
• Kan-on: ぼう (bō)
• Kun: あみ (ami, 罔)、くらい (kurai, 罔い)、しいる (shiiru, 罔いる)^{←しひる (sifiru, 罔ひる, historical)}、ない (nai, 罔い)^[1]

罔 (eumhun 그물 망 (geumul mang))

1. hanja form^? of 망 (“net”)
2. hanja form^? of 망 (“deceive”)
3. hanja form^? of 망 (“libel”)
4. hanja form^? of 망 (“negative”)

罔: Hán Nôm readings: vóng, vọng, võng

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