氓
máng
#3,054 most
frequent character
used in 流氓[liu2mang2]
Character breakdown
Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
氓 has 民 (slave, average person) as its meaning part and 亡 wáng as a sound part. It first meant 'the common people.' Later it grew to mean 'hoodlum, gangster.'
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