The 亡 family
亡 · wáng · ㄨㄤˊ — to die
Know 亡 and the readings of 7 more characters follow: 望、忙、忘、妄、盲、芒、氓. In traditional Chinese, most characters carry a sound component — a phonetic — and learning the phonetic once lights up its whole family. This page is that family, drawn live from the map.
The characters
One sound, many meanings: the 部首 beside each character is the other half of the pair, the part that tells them apart.
- 望wàng · ㄨㄤˋ部首 月 · moonto look toward; to hope; full moon79%
- 忙máng · ㄇㄤˊ部首 忄 豎心旁 · heartbusy; hurriedly57%
- 忘wàng · ㄨㄤˋ部首 心 · heartto forget; to overlook79%
- 妄wàng · ㄨㄤˋ部首 女 · femaleabsurd; fantastic79%
- 盲máng · ㄇㄤˊ部首 目 · eyeblind57%
- 芒máng · ㄇㄤˊ部首 艸 · grassawn (of cereals); arista (of grain)57%
- 氓máng · ㄇㄤˊ部首 氏 · family name(literary) common people57%
The percentage is our computed confidence that 亡 really signals that character’s sound — scored from how closely the readings agree and how reliably 亡 predicts the sound of every character built on it. Mean for this family: 66%.
Words this family builds
- 希望
- 幫忙
- 死亡
- 忘記
- 失望
- 渴望
- 指望
- 期望
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