莽
mǎng
Pinyin

Definition

莽
 - 
mǎng
  1. thick weeds
  2. luxuriant growth
  3. Illicium anisatum, a shrub with poisonous leaves
  4. impertinent

Character Decomposition

Compounds (2)

蟒
mǎng
  1. 1 python
漭
mǎng
  1. 1 vast
  2. 2 expansive (of water)

Related Words (7)

鲁莽
lǔ mǎng
  1. 1 hot-headed
  2. 2 impulsive
  3. 3 reckless
草莽
cǎo mǎng
  1. 1 a rank growth of grass
  2. 2 uncultivated land
  3. 3 wilderness
莽撞
mǎng zhuàng
  1. 1 rude and impetuous
王莽
Wáng Mǎng
  1. 1 Wang Mang (45 BC-23 AD), usurped power and reigned 9-23 between the former and later Han
莽
mǎng
  1. 1 thick weeds
  2. 2 luxuriant growth
  3. 3 Illicium anisatum, a shrub with poisonous leaves
  4. 4 impertinent

Sample Sentences

没错，你和我一样冲动又鲁莽，更不用说丝毫不神祕，实在不太适合当蛇夫座。
méicuò ，nǐ hé wǒ yīyàng chōngdòng yòu lǔmǎng ，gèngbùyòngshuō sīháo bù shénmì ，really bùtài shìhé dāng shéfūzuò 。
Yeah, true. You're impulsive and rash like me, not even to mention that we're not mysterious in the slightest. We're really not suitable to be ophiuchus.
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你这样也太莽撞了。你就不怕家里人担心吗？那个地方我们叫“幽灵湖”，很危险，也很诡异。经常有人莫名其妙地失踪。
nǐ zhèyàng yě tài mǎngzhuàng le 。nǐ jiù bù pà jiālǐ rén dānxīn ma ？nàge dìfang wǒmen jiào “yōulínghú ”，hěn wēixiǎn ，yě hěn guǐyì 。jīngcháng yǒurén mòmíngqímiào de shīzōng 。
You're too rash! Aren't you afraid your family will worry? We call this area ``The Lake of Spirits." It's very dangerous, very eerie. People often mysteriously vanish without a trace here.
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什么义气，我看这叫鲁莽。义气可不是这样不分青红皂白用暴力解决问题的。这样不就成了黑社会了？
shénme yìqi ，wǒ kàn zhè jiào lǔmǎng 。yìqi kěbushì zhèyàng bùfēn qīnghóngzàobái yòng bàolì jiějué wèntí de 。zhèyàng bù jiù chéng le hēishèhuì le ？
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