罔

罔 U+7F54, 罔 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7F54 ← 罓 [U+7F53] CJK Unified Ideographs 罕 → [U+7F55]

Translingual

Han character

罔 (Kangxi radical 122, 网+3, 8 strokes, cangjie input 月廿卜女 (BTYV), four-corner 7722₀, composition ⿵冂𠅇)

Derived characters

• 𠵜, 𫰻, 惘, 𭡐, 𣶈, 𪱣, 棢, 焹, 𪻫, 䃃, 網, 𦖉, 蝄, 𠬏, 誷(𫍬), 輞(辋), 龬, 魍, 䱩, 菵

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 946, character 30
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28211
• Dae Jaweon: page 1387, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2914, character 2
• Unihan data for U+7F54

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Chinese

trad.		罔
simp. #		罔

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 罔
Shang		Western Zhou	Spring and Autumn	Warring States			Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)			Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Qin slip script	Shizhoupian script	Ancient script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (亡) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
忙	*maːŋ
芒	*maːŋ, *maŋ
茫	*maːŋ
恾	*maːŋ
吂	*maːŋ, *maːŋs
汒	*maːŋ, *maŋs
朚	*maːŋ, *hmaːŋ, *maŋ, *mraːŋ, *mraːŋs
邙	*maːŋ, *maŋ
杗	*maːŋ, *maŋ
荒	*hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋs
肓	*hmaːŋ
衁	*hmaːŋ
巟	*hmaːŋ
詤	*hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋʔ, *hmaŋʔ
慌	*hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋʔ
謊	*hmaːŋʔ
喪	*smaːŋs, *smaːŋ
亡	*maŋ
望	*maŋ, *maŋs
莣	*maŋ
朢	*maŋ, *maŋs
鋩	*maŋ
硭	*maŋ
忘	*maŋ, *maŋs
网	*mlaŋʔ
罔	*mlaŋʔ
蛧	*maŋʔ
網	*mlaŋʔ
輞	*maŋʔ
棢	*maŋʔ
惘	*maŋʔ
菵	*maŋʔ
誷	*maŋʔ
魍	*maŋʔ
妄	*maŋs
盲	*mraːŋ
蝱	*mraːŋ
虻	*mraːŋ
氓	*mraːŋ
甿	*mraːŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *mlaŋʔ) : semantic 网 (“net”) + phonetic 亡 (OC *maŋ).

Etymology

“not have; not”

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ma (“not”). Cognate with 亡 (OC *maŋ), with an Old Chinese auxiliary verb derivative suffix *-ʔ.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wǎng (wang³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄤˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mong⁵
• Eastern Min (BUC): muōng
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): bóng

  (Teochew, Peng'im): bhuang²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wǎng
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄤˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wǎng
    • Wade–Giles: wang³
    • Yale: wǎng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: woang
    • Palladius: ван (van)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɑŋ²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: mong⁵
    • Yale: móhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mong⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: mong⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɔːŋ¹³/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: muōng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /muoŋ³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bóng
    • Tâi-lô: bóng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: borng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /bɔŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /bɔŋ⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /bɔŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /bɔŋ⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /bɔŋ⁴¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: bhuang²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: buáng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /buaŋ⁵²/

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• Middle Chinese: mjangX

Rime
Character	罔
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	陽 (106)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	文兩切
Baxter	mjangX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mʉɐŋX/
Pan Wuyun	/mʷiɐŋX/
Shao Rongfen	/miuɑŋX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/muaŋX/
Li Rong	/miuaŋX/
Wang Li	/mĭwaŋX/
Bernard Karlgren	/miwaŋX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	wǎng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	mong5

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*maŋʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*mlaŋʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	罔
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	wǎng
Middle Chinese	‹ mjangX ›
Old Chinese	/*maŋʔ/ (or *C.maŋʔ ?)
English	net
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	罔
Reading #	1/1
No.	12674
Phonetic component	亡
Rime group	陽
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	网
Old Chinese	/*mlaŋʔ/
Notes	亦同網

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 罔

1. ^† (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 網／网.
2. (literary) to not have
3. (literary) not
4. (literary) to deceive; to hide (truth) from
5. (archaic) to falsely accuse; to wrong (someone); to slander

   Template:zh-syn

6. (Eastern Min, with verbs and adjectives) the more... the more
7. (Eastern Min, with verbs) while (usually used as a pair: doing X while doing Y
8. (Eastern Min) although

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Japanese

Kanji

罔

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: もう (mō)
• Kan-on: ぼう (bō)
• Kun: あみ (ami); しいる (shiiru, 罔る); ない (nai)

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Korean

Hanja

罔 • (mang) (hangeul 망, revised mang, McCune–Reischauer mang, Yale mang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 罔 (vóng, vọng, võng)

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