慌

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 忄 (“heart”) + phonetic 荒 – a feeling of panic.

Han character

慌 (radical 61 心+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 心廿卜山 (PTYU), four-corner 9401₁, composition ⿰忄荒)

1. nervous, panicky, frantic

Note: The right-middle part could be found as 亾 instead of 亡.

References

• KangXi: page 398, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11057
• Dae Jaweon: page 737, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2326, character 7
• Unihan data for U+614C

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Cantonese

Hanzi

慌 (jyutping fong1, Yale fong1)

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Japanese

Kanji

慌 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: こう (kō)
• Kun: あわてる (awateru), あわただし (awatadashi), くらい (kurai)

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Korean

Hanja

慌 (hangeul 황, revised hwang, McCune-Reischauer hwang, Yale hwang)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

慌 (pinyin huāng (huang1), Wade-Giles huang¹)

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Vietnamese

Han character

慌 (hoảng, hoang)