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)

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

• 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

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• 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/

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• 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	/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

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*maŋʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*maŋʔ/

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. *[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

1. 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)‎, 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

• Nom Foundation