妄

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妄 U+5984, 妄
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5984
← 妃
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 妅 →
Stroke order
6 strokes

Translingual

Han character

妄 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 卜女女 (YVV), four-corner 00404, composition ⿱亡女)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 256, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6063
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1027, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+5984

Chinese

trad. 妄
simp. # 妄
alternative forms 𡚶
𡔞

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 妄
Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (亡) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
忙 *maːŋ
芒 *maːŋ, *maŋ
茫 *maːŋ
恾 *maːŋ
吂 *maːŋ, *maːŋs
汒 *maːŋ, *maŋs
朚 *maːŋ, *hmaːŋ, *maŋ, *mraːŋ, *mraːŋs
邙 *maːŋ, *maŋ
杗 *maːŋ, *maŋ
荒 *hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋs
肓 *hmaːŋ
衁 *hmaːŋ
巟 *hmaːŋ
詤 *hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋʔ, *hmaŋʔ
慌 *hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋʔ
謊 *hmaːŋʔ
喪 *smaːŋs, *smaːŋ
亡 *maŋ
望 *maŋ, *maŋs
莣 *maŋ
朢 *maŋ, *maŋs
鋩 *maŋ
硭 *maŋ
忘 *maŋ, *maŋs
网 *mlaŋʔ
罔 *mlaŋʔ
蛧 *maŋʔ
網 *mlaŋʔ
輞 *maŋʔ
棢 *maŋʔ
惘 *maŋʔ
菵 *maŋʔ
誷 *maŋʔ
魍 *maŋʔ
妄 *maŋs
盲 *mraːŋ
蝱 *mraːŋ
虻 *mraːŋ
氓 *mraːŋ
甿 *mraːŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *maŋs) and ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : phonetic 亡 (OC *maŋ) + semantic 女 (“woman”).

With 亡 also including meanings of “loss” or “destruction”, this character can be interpreted as the loss (亡) of one's proper reason after being seduced by a woman (女).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 妄
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 陽 (106)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 巫放切
Baxter mjangH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/mʉɐŋH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/mʷiɐŋH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/miuɑŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/muaŋH/
Li
Rong 		/miuaŋH/
Wang
Li 		/mĭwaŋH/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/miwaŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		wàng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		mong6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 妄
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		wàng
Middle
Chinese 		‹ mjangH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*maŋ-s/
English reckless

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 妄
Reading # 1/1
No. 12684
Phonetic
component 		亡
Rime
group 		陽
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		妄
Old
Chinese 		/*maŋs/

Definitions

妄

  1. improper; unrighteous
  2. absurd; foolish
  3. reckless; wild; presumptuous
  4. insolent; arrogant
  5. wilfully; recklessly; presumptuously

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

妄

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. a lie
  2. carelessly

Readings

  • Go-on: もう (mō, Jōyō)
  • Kan-on: ぼう (bō, Jōyō)
  • Kun: みだりに (midarini, 妄りに)

Compounds

Compounds

Korean

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

妄 (eumhun 허망할 망 (heomanghal mang))

  1. hanja form? of 망 (“absurd, foolish, reckless”)
  2. hanja form? of 망 (“false”)

Compounds

Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

妄: Hán Nôm readings: vọng, vòng

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