莽
Meanings
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- 1.(bound form) dense growth of grass
- 2.(literary) vast; boundless
- 3.(bound form) boorish; reckless
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Wiktionary
- 1.thick weeds, luxuriant growth
- 2.Illicium henryi and Illicium lanceolatum, whose fruits resemble star anise but are highly toxic
- 3.rude, impertinent
- 4.stocky; heavy; stout; fat
- 5.thick; bulky
- 6.silly; foolish; simple
- 7.rash
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *maːŋʔ, *moːʔ, *maːʔ): phonetic 茻 (OC *maːŋʔ) + semantic 犬, and also ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): semantic 茻 + semantic 犬 (Li Xueqin, 2012). Compare Chepang माङः (mang', “a kind of tall, thick-stemmed grass with very small seeds”) (Schuessler, 2007).
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
請原諒我的魯莽。
Please excuse me for being rude.
他去年在事故中幸存了，可是他仍然很魯莽地開車。
He survived an accident last year, but still drives recklessly.
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Derived terms
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Related words
鲁莽 hot-headed; impulsive; reckless草莽 a rank growth of grass榛莽 (literary) luxuriant vegetation莽草 Chinese anise (Ilicium anisatum, a shrub with poisonous leaves)粗莽 brusque; rough; boorish; crude苍莽 boundless王莽 Wang Mang (45 BC-23 AD), usurped power and reigned 9-23 between the former and later Han浪莽 vast卤莽 variant of 鲁莽[lǔ mǎng]莽撞 rash; reckless莽汉 boor