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荒

huāng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 character level 7-9 Character

荒 (huāng) means "desolate; shortage; scarce". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 荒 means

1. desolate
2. shortage
3. scarce
4. out of practice
5. absurd
6. uncultivated
7. to neglect

Example sentences

• 荒唐！
  Ridiculous!
• 你就是荒唐。
  Nǐ jiùshì huāngtáng.
  You're just being ridiculous.
• 他愚蠢且荒谬。
  He is foolish and absurd.
• 您这么做很荒唐。
  Nín zhème zuò hěn huāngtáng.
  It's absurd of you to do that.
• 多么荒唐的故事！
  Duōme huāngtáng de gùshi!
  What a bizarre story!
• 您这幺做很荒唐。
  It's absurd of you to do that.

Words starting with 荒

• 荒唐huāng tángbeyond belief; preposterous; absurd
• 荒凉huāng liángdesolate
• 荒谬huāng miùabsurd; ridiculous
• 荒诞huāng dànbeyond belief; incredible; preposterous
• 荒废huāng fèito abandon (cultivated fields); no longer cultivated; to lie waste
• 荒野huāng yěwilderness
• 荒芜huāng wúleft to return to unchecked growth; overgrown; grown wild
• 荒原huāng yuánwasteland
• 荒漠huāng mòdesert; desolate wilderness; barren wasteland; vast and desolate
• 荒地huāng dìwasteland; uncultivated land
• 荒草huāng cǎoweeds; brush (vegetation); wild grassland
• 荒山huāng shāndesert mountain; barren hill
• 荒岛huāng dǎobarren or uninhabited island
• 荒郊huāng jiāodesolate area outside a town
• 荒淫huāng yínlicentious
• 荒年huāng niányear of famine
• 荒村huāng cūnan abandoned village
• 荒弃huāng qìto abandon; to let go to waste
• 荒怪不经huāng guài bù jīngabsurd; unthinkable
• 荒无人烟huāng wú rén yāndesolate and uninhabited (idiom)
• 荒漠化huāng mò huàdesertification
• 荒漠伯劳huāng mò bó láo(bird species of China) isabelline shrike (Lanius isabellinus)
• 荒诞不经huāng dàn bù jīngabsurd; preposterous; ridiculous
• 荒井Huāng jǐngArai (Japanese surname)

Words containing 荒

• 饥荒jī huāngcrop failure; famine; debt
• 破天荒pò tiān huāngunprecedented; for the first time; never before
• 北大荒běi dà huāngthe Great Northern Wilderness (in Northern China)
• 落荒而逃luò huāng ér táoto flee in defeat; to bolt
• 开荒kāi huāngto open up land (for agriculture)
• 兵荒马乱bīng huāng mǎ luàn(idiom) war-torn; ravaged by war; in a state of utter chaos
• 拾荒shí huāngto glean; to collect scraps; to eke out a meager living
• 备荒bèi huāngto prepare against natural disasters
• 剧荒jù huāng(neologism, attested by 2016) TV drama drought; nothing good to watch
• 包荒bāo huāngto be tolerant; to be forgiving; to conceal
• 灾荒zāi huāngnatural disaster; famine
• 熟荒shú huāngabandoned land
• 烧荒shāo huāngto clear waste land or forest by burning; slash-and-burn (agriculture)
• 粮荒liáng huāngfamine; critical shortage of grain
• 色荒sè huāngwallowing in lust
• 逃荒táo huāngto escape from a famine; to get away from a famine-stricken region
• 电荒diàn huāngshortage of electricity
• 天荒地老tiān huāng dì lǎo(idiom) until the end of time
• 戈壁荒滩Gē bì huāng tānbarren sands of the Gobi desert
• 文化荒漠wén huà huāng mòcultural desert
• 美食荒漠měi shí huāng mòculinary desert
• 丧荒sāng huāngfunerals and famines
• 拓荒tuò huāngto open up land (for agriculture)
• 拓荒者tuò huāng zhěpioneer; groundbreaker

Characters that look like 荒

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 莞guānSkimmia japonica
• 冤yuāninjustice; grievance; wrong
• 茉mòused in 茉莉
• 笈jítrunks (for books)
• 苴jū(hemp); sack cloth
• 罡gāngstars of the Big Dipper that constitute the tail of the dipper

Sounds the same

Read huāng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 慌to get panicky; to lose one's head; (colloquial) (after 得
• 肓region between heart and diaphragm
• 塃(dialect) newly-mined ore
• 巟a watery waste; to reach
• 衁blood

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read huāng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.