Chinese symbol for “wilderness”
荒野
huāng yě
wilderness
The closest CC-CEDICT match for wilderness is 荒野 (huāng yě), defined as: wilderness.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “wilderness”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 旷野 (曠野) | kuàng yě | wilderness |
| 野地 | yě dì | wilderness |
| 深山老林 | shēn shān lǎo lín | (idiom) backwoods; wilderness |
| 榛芜 (榛蕪) | zhēn wú | wilderness; bushy and weedy |
| 草莽 | cǎo mǎng | a rank growth of grass; uncultivated land |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 荒野.
| 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 |
| 荒诞 (荒誕) | huāng dàn | beyond belief; incredible |
| 野生 | yě shēng | (of animals, plants etc) wild |
| 野蛮 (野蠻) | yě mán | barbarous; uncivilized |
| 视野 (視野) | shì yě | field of view; (fig.) outlook; perspective |
See also: Japanese symbol for “wilderness”.
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.