HSK 2 · Adjectives

忙 máng “busy” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 忙 means

  1. busy
  2. hurriedly
  3. to hurry
  4. to rush

How to say 忙

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale忙máng2nd tone, rising

忙 in a sentence

  1. 我明天会很忙。

    Wǒ míngtiān huì hěn máng.

    I’ll be busy tomorrow.

    Sentence #431500 from Tatoeba

  2. 最近我一直都很忙。

    Zuìjìn wǒ yìzhí dōu hěn máng.

    I’ve been really busy lately.

    Sentence #432992 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 现在你忙吗？

    Xiànzài nǐ máng ma?

    Are you busy now?

    Sentence #1470487 from Tatoeba

How 忙 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 忙 (máng) with each of its parts in a different colour
忙mángbusy
  • 忄heart form of 心 · xīn
  • 亡death · wáng

Memory aidPicture a heart 忄 that is lost 亡: too busy to think. 亡 (wáng) also gives the sound.

How to write 忙

忙 6 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

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

Words related to 忙

Words with 忙

帮忙bāngmáng · to help匆忙cōngmáng · hasty急忙jímáng · hastily连忙liánmáng · promptly繁忙fánmáng · busy忙碌mánglù · busy

More words: Adjectives

黑hēi · black白bái · white红hóng · red新xīn · new错cuò · wrong真zhēn · true非常fēicháng · extremely最zuì · most

FAQs

忙 (máng) means “busy” or “hurriedly”. It is an HSK 2 word, so it is one of the words learners meet early.
Say it máng: máng with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 忙 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type mang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 忙 from the suggestions. Typing mang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
忙 is an HSK 2 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.