荒 (huāng)
desolate; shortage; absurd
How 荒 is written
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 艹 — grass
- Traditional
- 荒
- Simplified
- 荒 (unchanged)
Components
- 艹 grass
- 匸 hiding enclosure
- 丶 dot
- 儿 legs
- 丨 line
Common words using 荒
- 拓荒者 tuòhuāngzhě
- pioneer; groundbreaker
- 荒唐 huāngtáng
- beyond belief; preposterous; absurd
- 荒村 huāngcūn
- an abandoned village
- 兵荒馬亂 bīnghuāngmǎluàn
- soldiers munity and troops rebel (idiom); turmoil and chaos of war
- 拾荒 shíhuāng
- to glean; to collect scraps; to eke out a meager living
- 破天荒 pòtiānhuāng
- unprecedented; for the first time; never before
- 荒原 huāngyuán
- wasteland
- 荒地 huāngdì
- wasteland; uncultivated land
- 荒島 huāngdǎo
- barren or uninhabited island; CL:個|个[ge4],座[zuo4]
- 荒廢 huāngfèi
- to abandon (cultivated fields); no longer cultivated; to lie waste
- 荒涼 huāngliáng
- desolate
- 荒漠 huāngmò
- barren
荒 in a sentence
那聽起來太荒謬了。
Nà tīng qǐlái tài huāngmiù le.
“That sounds absurd.”
How common is 荒?
荒 is the 1,326th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 93.2% of all running text.
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