慌

huāng
adjective HSK 7-9 #4,869

Meanings

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

Examples

HSK 2
Bié huāng, mànmànlái.
Don't panic; take it slowly.
HSK 3
她慌了,不知道该怎么办。
Tā huāng le, bù zhīdào gāi zěnmebàn.
She panicked and didn't know what to do.
HSK 3
Xīnlǐ huāng huāng de, zǒng juéde yǒu shénme búduì.
Feeling flustered inside, always feeling something is off.

Tips

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

Components

radical
忄 xīn
heart (left-form)
Left-side heart radical, the vertical form of 心 used along the left edge. It supplies the meaning: an inner state of feeling. 慌 is panic, fluster, alarm - the heart thrown into disarray. The radical anchors the inner-life family: 怕 (fear), 忙 (busy/anxious), 怪 (strange), 怀 (cherish), 慢 (slow-tempered).
phonetic
荒 huāng
wild; barren
Right 荒 supplies the sound - exact match huāng with no drift. 荒 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: 慌, 谎 (lie/falsehood), 恍 (suddenly aware).

Stroke Order

慌 huāng