忘

See also: 忙

Translingual

Etymology

Historical forms of the character 忘
Bronze inscriptions	Bamboo and silk script	Large seal script	Small seal script

Han character

忘 (radical 61 心+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 卜女心 (YVP), four-corner 0033₁, composition ⿱亡心)

References

• KangXi: page 376, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10333
• Dae Jaweon: page 703, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2270, character 9
• Unihan data for U+5FD8

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		忘

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wàng (wang⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄤˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mong⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): mong
• Min Dong (BUC): uòng
• Min Nan (POJ): bōng / bông
• Wu (Wiktionary): maan (T3); vaan (T3)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: wàng
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄤˋ
    • Wade-Giles: wang⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wanq
    • IPA ^(key): /u̯ɑŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: mong⁴
    • Yale: mòhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mong⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /mɔːŋ²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: mong
    • Hakka Romanization System: mong
    • Hagfa Pinyim: mong⁴
    • IPA: /moŋ⁵⁵/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: uòng
    • IPA ^(key): /uoŋ⁵³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bōng / bông
    • Tâi-lô: bōng / bông
    • Phofsit Daibuun: bong, boong
    • IPA (Taipei): /bɔŋ³³/, /bɔŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /bɔŋ²²/, /bɔŋ¹³/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: maan (T3); vaan (T3)
    • IPA ^(key): /mɑ̃²³/, /v̻ɑ̃²³/

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 忘
Mandarin	Beijing	/uɑŋ⁵¹/
	Harbin	/uaŋ⁵³/
	Tianjin	/vɑŋ⁵³/
	Jinan	/vaŋ²¹/
	Qingdao	/vaŋ⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/uaŋ³¹²/
	Xi'an	/uaŋ⁴⁴/
	Xining	/uɔ̃²¹³/
	Yinchuan	/vɑŋ¹³/
	Lanzhou	/vɑ̃¹³/
	Ürümqi	/vɑŋ²¹³/
	Wuhan	/uaŋ²¹³/ /uaŋ³⁵/
	Chengdu	/uaŋ¹³/
	Guiyang	/uaŋ²¹³/
	Kunming	/uã̠²¹²/
	Nanjing	/uaŋ⁴⁴/
	Hefei	/uɑ̃⁵³/
Jin	Taiyuan	/vɒ̃⁴⁵/
	Pingyao	/uɑŋ³⁵/ /uə³⁵/ ～下了
	Hohhot	/vɑ̃⁵⁵/
Wu	Shanghai	/mɑ̃²³/ /huɑ̃²³/
	Suzhou	/mɑ̃³¹/
	Hangzhou	/mɑŋ¹³/ /vɑŋ¹³/
	Wenzhou	/ɦuɔ³¹/
Hui	Shexian	/o²²/ /mɔ²²/
	Tunxi	/mau¹¹/
Xiang	Changsha	/uan¹³/
	Xiangtan	/uɔn¹²/
Gan	Nanchang	/mɔŋ²¹/ ～記 /uɔŋ²¹/ ～性大
Hakka	Meixian	/moŋ¹¹/
	Taoyuan	/moŋ¹¹/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/mɔŋ²¹/
	Nanning	/mɔŋ²¹/ /mɔŋ²²/
	Hong Kong	/mɔŋ²¹/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/bɔŋ²²/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/uɔŋ²⁴²/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/uaŋ²¹/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/buaŋ⁵⁵/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/vaŋ³¹/

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• Middle Chinese: /mʉɐŋ^H/▼

Rime
Character	忘
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	陽 (106)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	巫放切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mʉɐŋH/
Pan Wuyun	/mʷiɐŋH/
Shao Rongfen	/miuɑŋH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/muaŋH/
Li Rong	/miuaŋH/
Wang Li	/mĭwaŋH/
Bernard Karlgren	/miwaŋH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	wàng

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*maŋ/, /*maŋ-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*maŋ/, /*maŋs/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	忘	忘
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	wáng	wàng
Middle Chinese	‹ mjang ›	‹ mjangH ›
Old Chinese	/*maŋ/	/*maŋ-s/
English	forget	forget
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	忘	忘
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	12672	12683
Phonetic component	亡	亡
Rime group	陽	陽
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	亡	妄
Old Chinese	/*maŋ/	/*maŋs/

Definitions

忘

1. to forget
2. to neglect
3. to miss, to omit

Synonyms

• 忘記／忘记 (wàngjì)

References

• (Min Nan) “Entry #3151”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

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Japanese

Kanji

忘

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. forget

Readings

• Goon: もう (mō)
• Kan’on: ぼう (bō)
• Kun: わすれる (wasureru)

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Korean

Hanja

忘 • ‎(mang) (hangeul 망, McCune-Reischauer mang, Yale mang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

忘 (vong)

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