惘

惘	U+60D8, 惘 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-60D8

← 惗
[U+60D7]

CJK Unified Ideographs

惙 →
[U+60D9]

惘	U+FA86, 惘 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA86

← 徭
[U+FA85]

CJK Compatibility Ideographs

慎 →
[U+FA87]

Translingual

Han character

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

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

Unihan data for U+FA86

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

Mandarin
(Pinyin): wǎng (wang³)

(Zhuyin): ㄨㄤˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): mong⁵
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bòng

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: wǎng
  - Zhuyin: ㄨㄤˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: wǎng
  - Wade–Giles: wang³
  - Yale: wǎng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: woang
  - Palladius: ван (van)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɑŋ²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: mong⁵
  - Yale: móhng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: mong⁵
  - Guangdong Romanization: mong⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɔːŋ¹³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bòng
  - Tâi-lô: bòng
  - Phofsit Daibuun: boxng
  - IPA (Xiamen): /bɔŋ²¹/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /bɔŋ⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /bɔŋ²¹/
  - IPA (Taipei): /bɔŋ¹¹/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /bɔŋ²¹/

Middle Chinese: mjangX

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	/mʉɐŋ^X/
Pan Wuyun	/mʷiɐŋ^X/
Shao Rongfen	/miuɑŋ^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/muaŋ^X/
Li Rong	/miuaŋ^X/
Wang Li	/mĭwaŋ^X/
Bernhard Karlgren	/miwaŋ^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	wǎng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mong⁵

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*maŋʔ/

(Zhengzhang): /*maŋʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	惘
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	wǎng
Middle Chinese	‹ mjang^X ›
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. [t] 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

disappointed; disconcerted; dejected; discouraged

Compounds

怳惘
恍惘
惝惘
悵惘 / 怅惘 (chàngwǎng)
惘惘 (wǎngwǎng)
悽惘 / 凄惘
惘然 (wǎngrán)
惘然如失
惘然若失 (wǎngránruòshī)
惘若有失
迷惘 (míwǎng)

References

“惘”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

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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