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荒唐

huāng táng

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

荒唐 (huāng táng) means "beyond belief; preposterous; absurd". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 荒唐 means

1. beyond belief
2. preposterous
3. absurd
4. intemperate
5. dissipated

The characters in 荒唐

• 荒huāngdesolate; shortage; scarce
• 唐tángto exaggerate; empty; in vain

Example sentences

• 荒唐！
  Ridiculous!
• 你就是荒唐。
  Nǐ jiùshì huāngtáng.
  You're just being ridiculous.
• 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.
• 多幺荒唐的故事！
  What a bizarre story!

Words starting with 荒唐

• 荒唐无稽huāng táng wú jīpreposterous

Where 荒唐 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · huáng–huī (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
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