大忙人 (dà máng rén) — very busy person, busy bee | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

very busy personbusy bee

Measure word · 个

Examples

大忙人，。
Tā zhēn shì gè dà máng rén, yì tiān dào wǎn dōu zài kāi huì.
He's really a busy bee, in meetings from morning till night.
，大忙人。
Zì cóng dāng le xiàng mù jīng lǐ, tā jiù chéng le dà máng rén.
Since becoming a project manager, she has become a very busy person.
大忙人，。
Bié qù dǎ rǎo nà ge dà máng rén, tā zhèng gǎn zhe jiāo bào gào ne.
Don't bother that busy person; he's rushing to submit his report.

Origin

Compound word

构词法gòucífǎ

偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

忙人busy person

忙mángbusy人rénperson

偏正Modifier + head

A 人 whose 忙 is so 大 that they can hardly stop.

Characters in this word

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

The form 大 is a picture of a person standing and facing forward, not of someone stretching their arms.

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

忄亡忙

Meaning part形符xíngfú

忄Written in full as心xīn

Sound part声符shēngfú

亡

亡wáng忙máng

The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

忙 pairs 忄 (heart) with 亡, which gives the sound.

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

The shape of 人 shows a side view of a standing person, with an arm and a leg.

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