荒 — Chinese character
荒
huāng
wasteland, desert; uncultivated
- Pinyin
- huāng
- Radical
- 140 ⾋ (Grass)
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- 芒 川
- Formation
- pictophonetic — grass; meaning component 芒; sound component 川
- Japanese
- 荒 as a kanji
Common words with 荒
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 荒谬 (荒謬) | huāng miù | absurd; ridiculous |
| 饥荒 (饑荒) | jī huāng | crop failure; famine |
| 荒唐 | huāng táng | beyond belief; preposterous |
| 荒废 (荒廢) | huāng fèi | to abandon (cultivated fields); no longer cultivated |
| 荒野 | huāng yě | wilderness |
| 荒诞 (荒誕) | huāng dàn | beyond belief; incredible |
| 荒地 | huāng dì | wasteland; uncultivated land |
| 荒漠 | huāng mò | desert; desolate wilderness; barren wasteland; vast and desolate |
| 荒芜 (荒蕪) | huāng wú | left to return to unchecked growth; overgrown |
| 荒凉 (荒涼) | huāng liáng | desolate |
| 荒岛 (荒島) | huāng dǎo | barren or uninhabited island; 个 (gè),座 (zuò) |
| 荒原 | huāng yuán | wasteland |
English words written with 荒
荒 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Tao Te Ching 1 · I Ching 1 · Mencius 4 · Zhuangzi 5
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 20
- Hexagram 11
- Mencius 1B.4
- Mencius 6B.7
- Zhuangzi On Letting Alone
- Zhuangzi Exercise of Faculties
- Zhuangzi The Old Fisherman
- Zhuangzi The Empire
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