忙

音読おんよみ: ボウ・モウ

訓読くんよみ: いそがしい

画数かくすう: 6

部首ぶしゅ: 忄（りっしんべん）

Meaning

Busy / Hectic

  • 忙いそがしい — busy; hectic
  • 多忙たぼう — extremely busy
  • 繁忙はんぼう — peak busy period
  • 忙殺ぼうさつ — swamped with work
  • 忙いそがし中ちゅう — in the middle of a busy time

忙 combines the “heart/mind” radical 忄 with 亡. Picture a heart that’s scattered or “not present” — the feeling of being rushed and unable to settle.

暇

Contrast 忙 with 暇（ひま） — a gate framing the sun, time open and unhurried. With 忙, the heart radical shows a mind pulled away, flitting from task to task. Instantly, you feel the difference: scattered heart vs. open time.

多忙
Appears in
多忙たぼう — extremely busy; heavy workload
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