倥 (kǒng): used in 倥偬: pressed for time; h…

Meanings

1 used in 倥偬: pressed for time; harried; (of life) hard and distressed

Characters

倥

kǒng

used in 倥偬: pressed for time; harried; (of life) hard and…

Examples

戎马倥偬，很少有时间休息。

Róngmǎ kǒngzǒng, hěn shǎo yǒu shíjiān xiūxi.

In a soldier's hurried life there is little time to rest.

那些年过得十分倥偬。

Nàxiē nián guò de shífēn kǒngzǒng.

Those years were busy and hard-pressed.

Tips

usage

Third tone 倥 appears only in 倥偬, most famously in 戎马倥偬 — a soldier's life of constant rushed campaigning. It is unrelated to the 倥 'ignorant' reading.

Components

radical

亻 rén

person

Left is the side-person radical 亻, the standing form of 人. It marks a word about a human condition — here a person's untaught, blank state of mind.

phonetic

空 kōng

empty (phonetic, with hollow-mind hint)

Right is 空, giving the sound kōng and a fitting overtone: an empty, unfilled head. Person plus emptiness suggests an unenlightened, knowledge-less mind.