Chinese symbol for “wasteland”
荒地
huāng dì
wasteland; uncultivated land
The closest CC-CEDICT match for wasteland is 荒地 (huāng dì), defined as: wasteland; uncultivated land.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “wasteland”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 荒原 | huāng yuán | wasteland |
| 埌 | làng | wasteland; wild |
| 废土 (廢土) | fèi tǔ | waste soil (excavation waste, contaminated soil etc); (post-apocalyptic) wasteland |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 荒地.
| 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 |
| 地区 (地區) | dì qū | region; area (informal or geographical term); prefecture (in China's administrative system) |
| 地方 | dì fāng | region; regional (away from the central administration) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “wasteland”.
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.