HSK 5 · Adjectives

慌张 huāngzhāng “flustered” in Chinese

Traditional 慌張

What 慌张 means

  1. flustered
  2. agitated

How to say 慌张

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale慌huāng1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale张zhāng1st tone, high and level

慌张 in a sentence

  1. 汤姆在表达自己的意见的时候总是很慌张。

    Tāngmǔ zài biǎodá zìjǐ de yìjiàn de shíhou zǒngshì hěn huāngzhāng.

    Tom always gets flustered when he expresses his own opinions.

    Sentence #8746512 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 慌张 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 慌 (huāng) with each of its parts in a different colour
慌huāngto get panicky; to lose one’s head
  • 忄heart form of 心 · xīnMeaning part
  • 荒wasteland · huāngSound part

忄 hints at the meaning (heart); 荒 (huāng) hints at the sound. Compare it with huāng.

The character 张 (zhāng) with each of its parts in a different colour
张zhāngto open up
  • 弓bow · gōngMeaning part
  • 长long · chángSound part

弓 hints at the meaning (bow); 长 (cháng) hints at the sound. Compare it with zhāng.

How to write 慌张

慌 12 strokes · 张 7 strokes

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慌张 (huāngzhāng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 慌张 (huāngzhāng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 慌张

Words with 张

张zhāng · mw for flat objects紧张jǐnzhāng · nervous主张zhǔzhāng · to advocate夸张kuāzhāng · to exaggerate扩张kuòzhāng · to expand东张西望dōngzhāngxīwàng · to look around in all directions

More words: Adjectives

豪华háohuá · luxurious合法héfǎ · lawful合理hélǐ · rational糊涂hútu · muddled灰huī · grey活跃huóyuè · active激烈jīliè · (of competition or fighting) intense坚决jiānjué · firm

FAQs

慌张 (huāngzhāng) means “flustered” or “agitated”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it huāngzhāng: huāng with a 1st tone, then zhāng with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 慌张 is written 慌張. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type huangzhang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 慌张 from the suggestions. Typing huangzhang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
慌张 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.