Meaning of 荒
Definitions from CC-CEDICT.
huāng
- desolate
- shortage
- scarce
- out of practice
- absurd
- uncultivated
- to neglect
荒 in example sentences
Real sentences from the Tatoeba project, with pinyin and English.
她们被抛弃在一座荒岛上。
They were marooned on a desert isle.
永动机这个概念是个荒唐的假说。
The idea of perpetual motion is an absurd hypothesis.
您这么做很荒唐。
It's absurd of you to do that.
多么荒唐的故事！
What a bizarre tale!
他愚蠢且荒谬。
He is foolish and absurd.
Stroke order for each character
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荒 huāng · desolate · 9 strokes
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Related words
Words that share a character with 荒.
| 荒谬 | huāngmiù | absurd; ridiculous |
| 荒凉 | huāngliáng | desolate |
| 荒诞 | huāngdàn | beyond belief; incredible |
| 荒唐 | huāngtáng | beyond belief; preposterous |
| 荒野 | huāngyě | wilderness |
| 饥荒 | jīhuāng | crop failure; famine |
| 荒废 | huāngfèi | to abandon (cultivated fields); no longer cultivated |
| 荒芜 | huāngwú | left to return to unchecked growth; overgrown |
| 荒漠 | huāngmò | desert; desolate wilderness; barren wasteland; vast and desolate |
| 荒地 | huāngdì | wasteland; uncultivated land |
| 荒岛 | huāngdǎo | barren or uninhabited island |
| 荒原 | huāngyuán | wasteland |
Questions about 荒
What does 荒 mean?
荒 (huāng) means "desolate; shortage" and is used as a verb.
How do you write 荒?
荒 is made of 1 character: 荒 (9 strokes). That is 9 strokes in total.
Is 荒 an HSK word?
Yes. 荒 is on the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list of the HSK 3.0 standard.