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I've put these two words on the same page because they use very similar components
and have the same pinyin with the same tone - máng - "hurry; busy" and máng "blind"

 

graphic: Chinese character mang2 = blindmáng (blind) Picture: Dave Clement, our favourite mang ren, will visit us in Wuxi in October of 2011.

 

This is graphic: Chinese character wang2 = diewáng (die)

Above

graphic: Chinese character mu4 = eye mů (eye)

If you are blind, your eyes have died.

 

Now lets look at

graphic: Chinese character mang2 = busymáng (busy)

This is one of the xīn (heart) radicals.  There are a couple of them.

graphic: Chinese character xin1 = heart xīn (heart) as a character looks like this.

graphic: Chinese character radical xin1 = heart xīn (heart) the radical twists it around to look like this.

Put graphic: Chinese character radical xin1 = heart xīn (heart) beside graphic: Chinese character wang2 = diewáng (die) and you have

graphic: Chinese character mang2 = busymáng (busy)

You're going for the heart attack, kiddo.  You'll be
a-máng the dead. Take a break.  Get out in the sunshine, Sunshine.

 

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