茫

茫 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 廿水卜女 (TEYV), four-corner 4411₀, composition ⿱艹汒)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1028, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30900
• Dae Jaweon: page 1487, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3210, character 8
• Unihan data for U+832B

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *maːŋ): semantic 艹 (“grass; plant”) + phonetic 汒 (OC *maːŋ, *maŋs).

茫

1. vast; boundless; widespread
2. indistinct; vague
3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 忙 (máng)

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “茫”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 151.
• 周存 [Zhōu, Cún], editor (2023), “茫”, in 长汀话词典 CHANGTINGHUA CIDIAN [Dictionary of Changting Dialect] (overall work in Hakka and Mandarin), Guangzhou: 世界图书出版有限公司 [World Book Publishing Co., Ltd.], →ISBN, page 413.

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. wide, expansive

• Go-on: もう (mō)
• Kan-on: ぼう (bō)
• Kun: とおい (tōi, 茫い)

茫 (eumhun 아득할 망 (adeukhal mang))

1. hanja form^? of 망 (“vast, boundless, widespread”)

茫: Hán Việt readings: mang^{[1][2][3][4][5]}
茫: Nôm readings: mang^[1][2][3], màng^[1][3], mương^[2], mơng^[4]

1. chữ Nôm form of mang
   1. to carry
   2. used in mênh mang (“vast and obscure; immense; infinite; endless”)
   3. used in mở mang (“to extend; to expand (one's knowledge, etc.)”)
2. chữ Nôm form of màng (“(chiefly in the negative) to take interest in (something); to be concerned (with)”)