Chinese symbol for “absurd”
荒谬
huāng miù
Traditional: 荒謬
absurd; ridiculous
The closest CC-CEDICT match for absurd is 荒谬 (huāng miù), defined as: absurd; ridiculous.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “absurd”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 见鬼 (見鬼) | jiàn guǐ | absurd; strange |
| 妄 | wàng | absurd; fantastic |
| 荒诞不经 (荒誕不經) | huāng dàn bù jīng | absurd; preposterous |
| 悖谬 (悖謬) | bèi miù | absurd; irrational |
| 谬 (謬) | miù | (bound form) false; erroneous; absurd; mu (Greek letter Μ, μ) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 荒谬.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 谬误 (謬誤) | miù wù | error; mistaken idea |
| 谬论 (謬論) | miù lùn | misconception; fallacy |
| 悖谬 (悖謬) | bèi miù | absurd; irrational |
See also: Japanese symbol for “absurd”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.