huāng
adjective HSK 5 #4,869

Meanings

  1. 1 flustered; panicked
  2. 2 to panic; nervous

Examples

HSK 3
Xīnlǐ huāng huāng de, zǒng juéde yǒu shénme búduì.
Feeling flustered inside, always feeling something is off.
HSK 7-9
Bié huāng, mànmànlái.
Don't panic; take it slowly.
HSK 7-9
不知道怎么办
Tā huāng le, bù zhīdào gāi zěnmebàn.
She panicked and didn't know what to do.

Tips

usage
慌张 = panicked/flustered (more descriptive). alone is colloquial: ! (Don't panic!)

Components

radical
xīn
heart (left-form)
Left-side heart radical, the vertical form of used along the left edge. It supplies the meaning: an inner state of feeling. is panic, fluster, alarm - the heart thrown into disarray. The radical anchors the inner-life family: (fear), (busy/anxious), (strange), 怀 (cherish), (slow-tempered).
phonetic
huāng
wild; barren
Right supplies the sound - exact match huāng with no drift. also lends a faint semantic flavour: a barren or chaotic landscape, an unsettled wilderness. Combined with the heart radical, the whole becomes 'a heart in chaos' - fluster, panic. Same phonetic family: , (lie/falsehood), (suddenly aware).

Stroke Order

huāng