惘

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惘 U+60D8, 惘
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-60D8
← 惗
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 惙 →
惘 U+FA86, 惘
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA86
← 徭
 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 慎 →

Translingual

Han character

惘 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 心月廿女 (PBTV), four-corner 97020, composition ⿰忄罔)

  1. disconcerted, dejected, discouraged

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 391, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10809
  • Dae Jaweon: page 725, character 18
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2315, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+60D8

Chinese

trad. 惘
simp. # 惘
alternative forms 𰁥

Glyph origin

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 *maŋʔ) : semantic 心 (“heart”) + phonetic 罔 (OC *mlaŋʔ).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 惘
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 陽 (106)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 文兩切
Baxter mjangX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/mʉɐŋX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/mʷiɐŋX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/miuɑŋX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/muaŋX/
Li
Rong 		/miuaŋX/
Wang
Li 		/mĭwaŋX/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/miwaŋX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		wǎng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		mong5
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 惘
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		wǎng
Middle
Chinese 		‹ mjangX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*maŋʔ/
English dejected

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 惘
Reading # 1/1
No. 12679
Phonetic
component 		亡
Rime
group 		陽
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		网
Old
Chinese 		/*maŋʔ/

Definitions

惘

  1. disappointed; disconcerted; dejected; discouraged

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

惘

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • Go-on: もう (mō)
  • Kan-on: ぼう (bō)
  • Kun: あきれる (akireru, 惘れる)

Korean

Hanja

惘 (eum 망 (mang))

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Vietnamese

Han character

惘: Hán Nôm readings: võng

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References

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