Chinese Character Wiki
忘

wàng

forget

Phonosemantic compound. 心 represents the meaning and 亡 represents the sound.

Components
心 meaning component

心  Meaning component

xīn

  

heart

亡 sound component

亡  Sound component

wáng

  

death

Evolution

忘 Bronze script Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
忘 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
忘 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
忘 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

忘  

wàng

forget; neglect; miss, omit; to forget; to overlook; to neglect

Most common words with 忘
Freq.
Word
Meaning

忘

to forget

忘记

to forget

难忘

unforgettable

遗忘

to forget

忘掉

to forget

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*maŋ

mjang

wáng

forget

*maŋ-s

mjangH

wàng

forget


Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 75.7168% of movies

521st most common character in movies

1056th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+5FD8

Shuowen

“忘，不識也。从心，从亡，亡亦聲。”


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