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荡

dàng

HSK 6 Character Traditional 蕩

What 荡 means

1. to wash
2. to squander
3. to sweep away
4. to move
5. to shake
6. dissolute
7. pond

Other readings

荡 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• dàngvariant of {荡|dàng}

Example sentences

• 微风吹荡着湖面。
  A light breeze stirred the surface of the lake.
• 我过着放荡的生活。
  Wǒ guo zhe fàngdàng de shēnghuó.
  I lead a fast way of living.
• 汤姆感觉手机震荡了。
  Tāng mǔ gǎnjué shǒujī zhèndàng le.
  Tom felt his phone vibrate.
• 柳枝在微风中轻轻荡悠。
  The willow branches swayed gently in the breeze.
• 地狱空空荡荡，魔鬼都在人间。
  Dìyù kōngkōng-dàngdàng, móguǐ dōu zài rénjiān.
  Hell is empty, and all the devils are here!
• 一支大军正浩浩荡荡地行进着。
  A large army is proudly proceeding.

Words starting with 荡

• 荡漾dàng yàngto ripple; to undulate
• 荡然无存dàng rán wú cúnto obliterate completely; to vanish from the face of the earth
• 荡气回肠dàng qì huí chángheart-rending (drama, music, poem etc); deeply moving
• 荡荡dàng dàngfluttering
• 荡秋千dàng qiū qiānto swing (on a swing)
• 荡妇dàng fùprostitute; floozy; slut
• 荡然dàng ránvanished from the face of the earth; all gone; nothing left
• 荡妇羞辱dàng fù xiū rǔto slut-shame
• 荡舟dàng zhōuto row a boat
• 荡涤dàng díto clean up

Words containing 荡

• 动荡dòng dàngunrest (social or political); turmoil; upheaval
• 空荡荡kōng dàng dàngempty; deserted
• 游荡yóu dàngto wander; to roam about; to loaf about
• 回荡huí dàngto resound; to reverberate; to echo
• 飘荡piāo dàngto drift; to wave; to float on the waves
• 震荡zhèn dàngto shake up; to jolt; to vibrate
• 扫荡sǎo dàng(military) to mop up; to crack down on; to eradicate
• 浩浩荡荡hào hào dàng dàng(idiom) grandiose; majestic
• 激荡jī dàngto rage; to dash; to surge
• 淫荡yín dàngloose in morals; lascivious; licentious
• 放荡fàng dànglicentious; wanton; morally unrestrained
• 闯荡chuǎng dàngto leave home to make one's way in the world; to leave the life one knows to seek success
• 晃荡huàng dangto rock; to sway; to shake
• 坦荡tǎn dàngmagnanimous; broad and level
• 空空荡荡kōng kōng dàng dàngabsolutely empty (space); complete vacuum
• 倾家荡产qīng jiā dàng chǎnto lose a family fortune (idiom)
• 浩荡hào dàngvast and mighty (of river or ocean); broad and powerful
• 浪荡làng dàngto loiter; to hang around; dissolute
• 振荡zhèn dàngvibration; oscillation
• 脑震荡nǎo zhèn dàng(med.) cerebral concussion
• 批荡pī dàngto render (a wall)
• 摆荡bǎi dàngto swing; to sway
• 波荡bō dàngheave; surge
• 流荡liú dàngto float; to tramp; to rove

Characters that look like 荡

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

• 届jièto arrive at (place or time); period; to become due
• 圆yuáncircle; round; circular
• 莲liánlotus
• 匿nìto hide
• 荫yīn(bound form) shade (of a tree)
• 囿yòupark; to limit; be limited to

Sounds the same

Read dàng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 档(bound form) shelves (for files); pigeonholes; (bound form) files…
• 当at or in the very same...; suitable; adequate
• 挡to arrange; to put in order
• 宕dissipated; put off
• 凼pool; pit; ditch
• 菪henbane
• 砀stone with color veins
• 愓profligate
• 垱(dialect) earthen dyke in a river or rice paddy (for irrigation purposes)
• 簜(bamboo)
• 逿to fall; to sway; to cross
• 氹variant of 凼