忙 máng
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 忄 — heart
- Made of
- 忄 heart 亡 death, destruction
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
忙乱
mángluàn
flustered; in a hurried mess
Characters in this word
乱 luàn
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 乚 — secret, hidden, mysterious
Example phrases
- 突然停电后，后台一阵忙乱，主持人却仍然镇定地安抚观众。 Tūrán tíngdiàn hòu, hòutái yí zhèn mángluàn, zhǔchírén què réngrán zhèndìng de ānfǔ guānzhòng. After the sudden power cut, there was a burst of confusion backstage, but the host still calmly reassured the audience.
- 早上出门前总是一阵忙乱，找钥匙，找书包。 Zǎoshang chūmén qián zǒngshì yí zhèn mángluàn, zhǎo yàoshi, zhǎo shūbāo. Every morning before leaving there's a flurry of looking for keys and looking for the school bag.
- 新店开业第一天，服务员有点忙乱。 Xīn diàn kāiyè dì yī tiān, fúwùyuán yǒudiǎn mángluàn. On the new shop's opening day the staff were a bit flustered.
Related words
- 帮忙 bāngmáng to help, to do a favor
- 忙 máng busy
- 连忙 liánmáng hurriedly
- 急忙 jímáng hurriedly
- 慌忙 huāngmáng hurriedly
- 匆忙 cōngmáng hasty, hurried
- 繁忙 fánmáng busy
- 赶忙 gǎnmáng hurriedly, quickly
- 忙活 mánghuo to busy oneself; to bustle about
- 乱 luàn messy; chaotic
- 混乱 hùnluàn chaotic, disorderly
- 捣乱 dǎoluàn to make trouble; to disrupt