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茫

máng

HSK 6 Character

What 茫 means

1. vast, with no clear boundary
2. fig. hazy
3. indistinct
4. unclear
5. confused

Example sentences

• 未来很渺茫。
  Wèilái hěn miǎománg.
  The future is very uncertain.
• 她感到茫然。
  Tā gǎndào mángrán.
  She felt dazed.
• 我对以后做什么很迷茫。
  Wǒ duì yǐhòu zuò shénme hěn mímáng.
  I was puzzled about what to do next.
• 我对以后做什幺很迷茫。
  I was puzzled about what to do next.
• 他站在那里,一脸茫然。
  He was standing there with a vacant look.
• 汤姆说我看起来很迷茫。
  Tom said I looked disoriented.

Words starting with 茫

• 茫然máng ránblankly; vacantly; at a loss
• 茫茫máng mángboundless; vast and obscure
• 茫崖市Máng yá ShìMangnai, a county-level city in Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 海西蒙古族藏族自治州
• 茫然失措máng rán shī cuòat a loss (idiom)
• 茫崖Máng yásee 茫崖市

Words containing 茫

• 迷茫mí mángvast and indistinct; perplexed; bewildered
• 渺茫miǎo mánguncertain; remote; distant and indistinct
• 苍茫cāng mángboundless; vast; hazy (distant horizon)
• 白茫茫bái máng máng(of mist, snow, floodwater etc) a vast expanse of whiteness
• 喝茫hē máng(slang) to get drunk (Tw)
• 微茫wēi mánghazy; blurred
• 浩茫hào mángboundless; unlimited
• 混茫hùn mángdim; obscure
• 浑茫hún mángthe dark ages before civilization; limitless reaches; vague and confused
• 雾茫茫wù máng mángfoggy
• 夜色苍茫yè sè cāng mánggathering dusk
• 苦海茫茫kǔ hǎi máng mángsea of bitterness is vast (idiom)
• 前途渺茫qián tú miǎo mángnot knowing what to do next; at a loose end
• 渺渺茫茫miǎo miǎo máng mánguncertain; unknown; fuzzy
• 暮色苍茫mù sè cāng mángthe hazy dusk of twilight (idiom)
• 杳茫yǎo mángdistant and out of sight
• 一脸茫然yī liǎn máng ránpuzzled; bewildered

Characters that look like 茫

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 架jiàto support; frame; rack
• 染rǎnto dye; to catch (a disease); to acquire (bad habits etc)
• 荡dàngto wash; to squander; to sweep away
• 癸guǐtenth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干; tenth in order…
• 荫yīn(bound form) shade (of a tree)
• 奘zàng(literary) strong; robust (used in personal names); (colloquial) coarse; boorish

Sounds the same

Read máng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 忙busy; hurriedly; to hurry
• 盲blind
• 芒awn (of cereals); arista (of grain); tip (of a blade)
• 氓used in 流氓
• 尨shaggy dog; striped
• 硭crude saltpeter
• 铓sharp point; point of sword
• 哤jargon
• 杗ridge-pole in roof
• 杧used in 杧果
• 牻(literary) black and white cattle
• 駹black horse with a white face