IDENTITY
忙mángbusy
HSK 2Top 1700
CORE MEANING
busy
- Part of speech
- adjective
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.busyHSK2
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 忄heart radical (xīn)
- strokes
- 6
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰忄亡
- heart radical
- gives the sound máng
USAGE
Common words
帮忙bāngmángto help
连忙liánmánghurriedly
忙碌mánglùbusy
Graded examples
你忙不忙？Nǐ máng bù máng?HSK1
Are you busy?
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
LEARNING
Memory aid
A heart (忄) with everything scattered (亡) — busy.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #1700
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
- Reviewed by
- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-14
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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