莽 — Chinese character
莽
mǎng
thicket, underbrush; rude, impertinent
- Pinyin
- mǎng
- Radical
- 140 ⾋ (Grass)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 艹 犬 廾
- Formation
- ideographic — A dog 犬 surrounded by weeds 艹, 廾
- Japanese
- 莽 as a kanji
Common words with 莽
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 鲁莽 (魯莽) | lǔ mǎng | hot-headed; impulsive; reckless |
| 莽撞 | mǎng zhuàng | rash; reckless |
| 卤莽 (鹵莽) | lǔ mǎng | variant of 鲁莽 (lǔ mǎng) |
| 草莽 | cǎo mǎng | a rank growth of grass; uncultivated land |
| 莽汉 (莽漢) | mǎng hàn | boor |
| 苍莽 (蒼莽) | cāng mǎng | boundless |
| 莽草 | mǎng cǎo | Chinese anise (Ilicium anisatum, a shrub with poisonous leaves) |
| 榛莽 | zhēn mǎng | (literary) luxuriant vegetation |
| 浪莽 | làng mǎng | vast |
| 粗莽 | cū mǎng | brusque; rough; boorish; crude |
English words written with 莽
莽 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: I Ching 1 · Mencius 1 · Zhuangzi 6
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.