忙
máng HSK1

busy

忙 máng
busy adjective
fully occupied with work or activity

他最近工作很忙，很少回家吃饭。

tā zuì​jìn gōng​zuò hěn máng, hěn shǎo huí​jiā chī​fàn.

He has been very busy with work lately and rarely comes home for dinner.

hurry verb
to rush, hasten, or act in a hurried manner

别忙着下结论，先听听大家的意见。

bié máng zhe xià​jié​lùn, xiān tīng tīng dà​jiā de yì​jiàn.

Don't rush to a conclusion; listen to everyone's opinions first.

busy signal adjective
in telecommunications, an audio signal indicating that the line being called is currently in use.

我打了几次，对方的电话一直很忙。

wǒ dǎ le jǐ cì, duì​fāng de diàn​huà yī​zhí hěn máng.

I called several times, but the other party's line was always busy.

Frequency
Character
Written text
827th most common 217.2 per million
Movie subtitles
454th most common 323.0 per million appears in 79% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
248.7 per million appears in 61% of films
Written text
101.5 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 2
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
6
Unicode
U+5FD9

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)