慌 huāng frantic
frantic; nervous; panicked; to lose one's head
怎么记住“慌”: 忄 heart + 荒 wasteland = frantic. Lost in a wasteland with a dead phone, the driver feels his heart race and becomes frantic.
部件结构
慌 = 忄 heart + 荒 wasteland
- 忄 heart
- 荒 wasteland
Lost in a wasteland with a dead phone, the driver feels his heart race and becomes frantic.
用法
- Flustered/panicky: 慌张 (huāngzhāng) flurried, 惊慌 (jīnghuāng) panicked, 慌乱 (huāngluàn) chaotic and frantic, 别慌 (bié huāng) don't panic.
- As a colloquial intensifier 'unbearably': 饿得慌 (è de huāng) starving, 闷得慌 (mèn de huāng) bored stiff.
- 手忙脚乱、惊慌失措 (jīnghuāng-shīcuò) = to lose one's head in a panic.