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máng — busy; hurriedly

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Where it comes from

A heart, 忄, beside 亡 (to lose). A lost heart is the Chinese picture of being too busy — the phonetic carries the sound, but the pairing is hard to forget.

Words it turns up in

帮忙帮帮忙忙活

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