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荒谬

huāng miù

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

荒谬 (huāng miù) means "absurd; ridiculous". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 荒谬 means

1. absurd; ridiculous

The characters in 荒谬

• 荒huāngdesolate; shortage; scarce
• 谬miù(bound form) false; erroneous; absurd; mu (Greek letter Μ, μ)

Example sentences

• 他愚蠢且荒谬。
  He is foolish and absurd.
• 这种尝试很荒谬。
  It's nonsense to try that.
• 这是我听过最荒谬的想法。
  Zhè shì wǒ tīng guo zuì huāngmiù de xiǎngfǎ.
  That's the most absurd idea I've ever heard.
• 推特就是荒谬的绝佳例子。
  Tuītè jiù shì huāngmiù de juéjiā lìzi.
  Twitter is a good example of absurdity.
• 你那么做真是太过荒谬了.
  Nǐ nàme zuò zhēnshi tàiguò huāngmiù le.
  It is absurd of you to do that.
• 你那幺做真是太过荒谬了.
  It's absurd of you to do that.

Words starting with 荒谬

• 荒谬绝伦huāng miù jué lúnabsolutely ridiculous (idiom); preposterous; the height of folly
• 荒谬无稽huāng miù wú jīcompletely ridiculous and unfounded

Where 荒谬 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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