"Busy" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 忙碌 | máng lù | busy / bustling |   |
| 繁忙 | fán máng | busy / bustling | |
| 占线 | zhàn xiàn | busy (telephone line) | |
| 忙 |  máng | busy / hurriedly / to hurry / to rush | |
| 偬 | zǒng | busy / hurried / despondent | |
| 旺月 | wàng yuè | busy (business) month | |
| 事务繁忙 | shì wù fán máng | busy / bustling | |
| 鞅掌 | yāng zhǎng | busy / bustling | |
| 无暇 | wú xiá | too busy / to have no time for / fully occupied | |
| 旺季 | wàng jì | busy season / peak period / see also 淡季[dan4 ji4] | |
| 忙于 | máng yú | busy with | |
| 太忙 | tài máng | too busy | |
| 百忙 | bǎi máng | busy schedule | |
| 忙活 | máng huo | to be really busy / pressing business | |
| 团团转 | tuán tuán zhuàn | to go round and round / running around in circles / fig. frantically busy | |
| 好整以暇 | hào zhěng yǐ xiá | to be calm and unruffled in the midst of chaos or at a busy time (idiom) | |
| 疲于奔命 | pí yú bēn mìng | (idiom) terribly busy / up to one's ears in work | |
| 不暇 | bù xiá | to have no time (for sth) / to be too busy (to do sth) | |
| 奔忙 | bēn máng | to be busy rushing about / to bustle about | |
| 走马灯 | zǒu mǎ dēng | lantern with carousel of paper horses, rotating under convection, used at Lantern Festival 元宵節|元宵节 / fig. constant busy circulation of people | |
| 门庭若市 | mén tíng ruò shì | front yard as busy as a marketplace (idiom) / a place with many visitors | |
| 农忙 | nóng máng | busy farming season | |
| 凤仙花 | fèng xiān huā | balsam / Balsaminaceae (a flower family including Impatiens balsamina) / touch-me-not / busy Lizzie | |
| 挤 | jǐ | to crowd in / to cram in / to force others aside / to press / to squeeze / to find (time in one's busy schedule) | |
| 迎来送往 | yíng lái sòng wǎng | lit. to meet those arriving, to send of those departing (idiom) / busy entertaining guests / all time taken over with social niceties | |
| 大忙人 | dà máng rén | busy bee / very busy person | |
| 忙乎 | máng hū | to be busy (colloquial) | |
| 忙进忙出 | máng jìn máng chū | very busy | |
| 恓惶 | xī huáng | busy and restless / unhappy | |
| 百忙之中 | bǎi máng zhī zhōng | extremely busy | |
| 脱不了身 | tuō bù liǎo shēn | busy and unable to get away | |
| 忙忙叨叨 | máng mang dāo dāo | in a busy and hasty manner | |
| 忙音 | máng yīn | busy signal (telephony) | |
| 自顾不暇 | zì gù bù xiá | (idiom) to have one's hands full managing one's own affairs / too busy to spare time for anything extra | |
