awn (of cereals) / arista (of grain) / tip (of a blade) / Miscanthus sinensis (type of grass) / variant of 邙, Mt Mang at Luoyang in Henan

= + : Mahatma Gandhi (m-) is cutting grass (艹) just inside entrance of the anglepod (ang2) wearing a beret (亠) and using a shovel (乚) as the sharp point / tip of blade (芒) with which to cut the grass. He works so hard on cutting the grass, he looks like he is about to die (亡).

芒 character breakdown

to die / to lose / to be gone / to flee / deceased

= + : Willy Walrus (w) just finished digging a grave (亡) for his dead relatives who were killed in the Arctic in the anglepod's kitchen (ang2). Exhausted, he sticks the shovel (乚) in the earth and puts his beret (亠) on it. Finally, he sets up the tombstone (mnemonic symbol for 亡).
old variant of 亡[wang2]

= + : My mnemonic for 亡 is a tombstone, so this ancient variant gets to be a sarcophagus.

Willy Walrus (w) has to bury the Neanderthal man (人) in the anglepod's kitchen (ang2). The Neanderthal man (人) is lying in a half open sarcophagus (亾) next to Willy, and Willy uses a shovel (乚) to dig the grave.
grass radical 草字頭兒|草字头儿[cao3 zi4 tou2 r5]

Artificial lawn. The King of Chu burns artificial lawn in the aorta.

Characters with 芒 as component

crude saltpeter
sharp point / point of sword

Words with 芒

rays of light / brilliant rays / radiance
mango (loanword)
tip (of pencil, spear etc) / sharp point / cutting edge / spearhead / vanguard
feeling brambles and thorns in one's back (idiom) / uneasy and nervous / to be on pins and needles
(chemistry) ammonal (loanword)
see 針尖對麥芒|针尖对麦芒[zhen1 jian1 dui4 mai4 mang2]
sharply opposed to each other, with neither prepared to give an inch (idiom)
to be talented yet self-effacing (idiom)

Sentences with 芒

芒 currently does not appear in any sentence.