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Mythic Mandarin

忘 (wàng): meaning and stroke order

忘 (wàng) means to forget, to overlook, to neglect.

忘

Simplified
忘
Traditional
忘 (same form)
Pinyin
wàng

Stroke order of 忘

忘

  • wàng to forget; to overlook
  • 7 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 忘

  1. wàng
    • to forget
    • to overlook
    • to neglect

Radical and structure

忘
Radical 心 (Kangxi radical 61) · 7 strokes · 亡 on top, 心 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 忘

忘 in our stories

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  • 可是那天晚上,许诺在家看电影,把音乐会忘了。

    kěshì nà tiān wǎnshang Xǔ Nuò zài jiā kàn diànyǐng bǎ yīnyuèhuì wàng le

    But that evening Xu Nuo stayed home watching a film and forgot the concert.

    From the story That last piece HSK 3

  • 可是会议开始前五分钟,他的电脑突然没电了,充电器也忘在了酒店。

    kěshì huìyì kāishǐ qián wǔ fēnzhōng tā de diànnǎo tūrán méi diàn le chōngdiànqì yě wàng zài le jiǔdiàn

    But five minutes before the meeting his laptop suddenly died, and he had left the charger at the hotel.

    From the story Three circles HSK 4

  • 名字的最后,有一行小字:“荒年,官府禁止私放粮食,然人命关天,不敢见死不救。记此,勿让子孙忘。”

    míngzi de zuìhòu yǒu yì háng xiǎozì huāngnián guānfǔ jìnzhǐ sī fàng liángshi rán rénmìng guān tiān bù gǎn jiàn sǐ bú jiù jì cǐ wù ràng zǐsūn wàng

    After the names came a line in small script: "Famine year. The authorities forbid private grain relief, yet human life is at stake; I dare not stand by and let people die. I record this so my descendants will not forget."

    From the story Words written in rice water HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 忘

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).