慌 (huāng): to get panicky, to lose one's head, (coll.) (after 得) unbearably, terribly
慌 (huāng) is a Chinese character meaning “to get panicky.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 忄 (semantic) and 荒 (phonetic). It ranks #1638 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 慌 heart. Its radical form 忄 (heart) appears in many related characters such as 忙 (máng, busy), 快 (kuài, fast, happy), 怎 (zěn, how).
Definitions
- to get panicky
- to lose one's head
- (coll.) (after 得) unbearably
- terribly
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 恐慌adjective | kǒng huāng | panic |
| 惊慌adjective | jīng huāng | to panic |
| 惊慌失措phrase | jīng huāng shī cuò | to lose one's head out of fear (idiom) |
| 慌张adjective | huāng zhāng | flustered |
| 慌乱adjective | huāng luàn | frenetic |
| 心慌adjective | xīn huāng | to be flustered |
| 不慌不忙 | bù huāng bù máng | (idiom) calm |
| 心慌意乱phrase | xīn huāng yì luàn | confused |
| 慌忙adjective | huāng máng | in a great rush |
| 发慌verb | fā huāng | to become agitated |
| 慌里慌张adjective | huāng li huāng zhāng | flustered |
| 着慌verb | zháo huāng | alarmed |
| 慌神verb | huāng shén | to get agitated |
| 慌成一团 | huāng chéng yī tuán | (of a group of people) to run about helplessly |
| 恐慌发作 | kǒng huāng fā zuò | panic attack |
慌 appears in 18 compound words: 39 as the first character, 33 as the last, and 28 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 慌 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (6)
Showing 5 of 6 idioms containing 慌.
Example Sentences
遇到紧急情况不要慌张，要保持冷静。
Yù dào jǐnjí qíngkuàng bùyào huāngzhāng, yào bǎochí lěngjìng.
Don't panic in emergencies; stay calm.
...恐爆發破產事件 一篇末日報告又引發AI恐慌交易
. . . kǒng bào 發 pò 產 shì jiàn yī piān mò rì 報 gào yòu yǐn 發 kǒng huāng jiāo yì
...Fears of a Bankruptcy Wave: Another Doomsday Report Triggers AI Panic Trading
傳特朗普準備祭出新關稅!AI恐慌引燃「無差別拋售」,比特幣崩潰失守6.3...
傳 tè lǎng pǔ 準 備 jì chū xīn 關 稅 ! kǒng huāng yǐn rán 無 chā 別 拋 shòu , bǐ tè 幣 bēng 潰 shī shǒu . . . .
It is rumored that Trump is preparing to impose new tariffs! AI panic ignited "indiscriminate selling", and Bitcoin collapsed and fell below 6.3...
AI支出令市場心慌 亞馬遜擬花120億美元建資料中心 股價...
zhī chū lìng shì 場 xīn huāng 亞 馬 遜 擬 huā 億 měi yuán jiàn 資 liào zhōng xīn gǔ 價 . . .
AI Spending Alarms Markets as Amazon Plans $12 Billion Data Center Build; Stock...
...法源維持關稅政策 林俊憲:藍白刻意渲染恐慌
. . . fǎ yuán 維 chí 關 稅 zhèng cè lín jùn 憲 藍 bái kè yì 渲 rǎn kǒng huāng
Legal Basis for Maintaining Tariff Policy Lin Jun-hsien: Kuomintang and People First Party Deliberately Exaggerating Panic
...喊關稅重啟談判昔前功盡棄 他批刻意渲染恐慌
. . . hǎn 關 稅 chóng 啟 談 pàn xī qián gōng 盡 棄 tā pī kè yì 渲 rǎn kǒng huāng
... Shouting that tariffs restarted negotiations before it was all over, he criticized the deliberate fear-mongering.
雅妮像中了圈套的狼一样惊慌
Yǎ nī xiàng zhōng le quāntào de láng yīyàng jīnghuāng
Yanni panicked like a wolf in a snare.
昨天晚上，我惊慌失措。
Zuótiān wǎnshang, wǒ jīnghuāngshīcuò.
Last night, I fell into a panic.
地震后人们普遍觉得恐慌。
Dìzhèn hòu rénmen pǔbiàn juéde kǒnghuāng.
There was widespread panic after the earthquake.
他的眼睛掩饰不了内心的恐慌。
Tā de yǎnjing yǎnshì buliǎo nèixīn de kǒnghuāng.
His eyes betrayed his fear.
Character Family
Semantic Family — Characters sharing the 忄 (heart) component
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