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莽

mǎng

Character

What 莽 means

1. bound formdense growth of grass
2. literaryvast; boundless
3. bound formboorish; reckless

Example sentences

• 请原谅我的鲁莽。
  Qǐng yuánliàng wǒ de lǔmǎng.
  Please excuse me for being rude.
• 她比较鲁莽的相信了他。
  Tā bǐjiào lǔmǎng de xiāngxìn le tā.
  It was reckless of her to trust him.
• 鲁莽的开车容易造成交通事故
  Lǔmǎng de kāichē róngyì zàochéng jiāotōng shìgù
  Reckless driving can easily lead to an accident.
• 他去年在事故中幸存了，可是他仍然很鲁莽地开车。
  Tā qùnián zài shìgù zhōng xìngcún le, kěshì tā réngrán hěn lǔmǎng de kāichē.
  He survived an accident last year, but still drives recklessly.

Words starting with 莽

• 莽撞mǎng zhuàngrash; reckless
• 莽汉mǎng hànboor
• 莽草mǎng cǎoChinese anise (Ilicium anisatum, a shrub with poisonous leaves)

Words containing 莽

• 鲁莽lǔ mǎnghot-headed; impulsive; reckless
• 王莽Wáng MǎngWang Mang (45 BC-23 AD), usurped power and reigned 9-23 between the former and later Han
• 浪莽làng mǎngvast
• 粗莽cū mǎngbrusque; rough; boorish; crude
• 草莽cǎo mǎnga rank growth of grass; uncultivated land; wilderness
• 苍莽cāng mǎngboundless
• 榛莽zhēn mǎng(literary) luxuriant vegetation
• 卤莽lǔ mǎngvariant of 鲁莽

Characters that look like 莽

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

• 律lǜlaw
• 席xíwoven mat; seat; banquet
• 掉diàoto fall; to drop; to lag behind
• 屏píng(standing) screen
• 萍píngduckweed
• 骅huáchestnut horse

Sounds the same

Read mǎng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 蟒python
• 漭vast; expansive (of water)
• 茻(archaic) overgrown vegetation; dense growth of grass; (neologism, attested by 2021) vegan
• 蠎old variant of 蟒