忘

See also: 忙
忘 U+5FD8, 忘
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5FD8
← 志
[U+5FD7] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 忙 →
[U+5FD9]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

忘 (radical 61 心+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 卜女心 (YVP), four-corner 00331, composition ⿱亡心)

References

  • KangXi: page 376, character 24
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10333
  • Dae Jaweon: page 703, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2270, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+5FD8

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 忘

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 忘
Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions Chu Slip and silk script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
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

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ma (“not”). Cognate with 亡 (OC *maŋ, “to lose, disappear, flee”). Originally the two words were the same as suggested by Shijing rhymes, but later an Old Chinese perfective affix *-s/*-h was affixed to the word, lit. "it has disappeared (from mind)".

Pronunciation

Note:
  • 3maan - vernacular;
  • 3vaan - literary.
  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 忘
Mandarin Beijing /uɑŋ⁵¹/
Harbin /uaŋ⁵³/
Tianjin /vɑŋ⁵³/
Jinan /vaŋ²¹/
Qingdao /vaŋ⁴²/
Zhengzhou /uaŋ³¹²/
Xi'an /uaŋ⁴⁴/
Xining /uɔ̃²¹³/
Yinchuan /vɑŋ¹³/
Lanzhou /vɑ̃¹³/
Ürümqi /vɑŋ²¹³/
Wuhan /uaŋ²¹³/
/uaŋ³⁵/
Chengdu /uaŋ¹³/
Guiyang /uaŋ²¹³/
Kunming /uã̠²¹²/
Nanjing /uaŋ⁴⁴/
Hefei /uɑ̃⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /vɒ̃⁴⁵/
Pingyao /uɑŋ³⁵/
/uə³⁵/ ～下了
Hohhot /vɑ̃⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /mɑ̃²³/
/huɑ̃²³/
Suzhou /mɑ̃³¹/
Hangzhou /mɑŋ¹³/
/vɑŋ¹³/
Wenzhou /ɦuɔ³¹/
/muɔ³¹/
/maŋ³¹/
Hui Shexian /o²²/
/mɔ²²/
Tunxi /mau¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /uan¹³/
Xiangtan /uɔn¹²/
Gan Nanchang /mɔŋ²¹/ ～記
/uɔŋ²¹/ ～性大
Hakka Meixian /moŋ¹¹/
Taoyuan /moŋ¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /mɔŋ²¹/
Nanning /mɔŋ²¹/
/mɔŋ²²/
Hong Kong /mɔŋ²¹/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /bɔŋ²²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /uɔŋ²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /uaŋ²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /buaŋ⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /vaŋ³¹/
Rime
Character 忘
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 陽 (106)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 巫放切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /mʉɐŋH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /mʷiɐŋH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /miuɑŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /muaŋH/
Li
Rong		 /miuaŋH/
Wang
Li		 /mĭwaŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /miwaŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 wàng
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 忘 忘
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 wáng wàng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ mjang › ‹ mjangH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*maŋ/ /*maŋ-s/
English forget forget

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 忘 忘
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 12672 12683
Phonetic
component		 亡 亡
Rime
group		 陽 陽
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 亡 妄
Old
Chinese		 /*maŋ/ /*maŋs/

Definitions

忘

  1. to forget
  2. to neglect
  3. to miss; to omit

Synonyms

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

忘

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. forget

Readings

Korean

Hanja

忘 • (mang) (hangeul 망)

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Vietnamese

Han character

忘 (vong)

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