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蝗

huáng

Character

What 蝗 means

1. locust

Example sentences

• 那不是蚂蚱。是蝗虫！
  Nà bù shì màzha. shì huángchóng!
  That's not a grasshopper. It's a locust!
• 评论员对巫巫兹拉的声音作出了各种各样的描述：除了“烦人”、“像魔鬼一般”之外，还把它比作“一群嘈吵的大象”、“一群嗡嗡狂叫的蝗虫”、“一只准备给屠宰的山羊”、“一个装满发狂的蜜蜂的巨大蜂巢”、“一只吃了摇头丸的鸭子”等等。
  Pínglùn yuán duì wū wū zī lā de shēngyīn zuòchū le gèzhǒnggèyàng de miáoshù: chúle “ fánrén ”,“ xiàng móguǐ yībān ” zhīwài, hái bǎ tā bǐzuò “ yī qún cáo chǎo de dàxiàng ”,“ yī qún wēngwēng kuáng jiào de huángchóng ”,“ yī zhī zhǔnbèi gěi túzǎi de shānyáng ”,“ yī gè zhuāngmǎn fākuáng de mìfēng de jùdà fēngcháo ”,“ yī zhī chī le yáotóuwán de yāzi ” děngděng.
  Commentators have variously described the sound of vuvuzelas as "annoying" and "satanic" and compared it with "a stampede of noisy elephants", "a deafening swarm of locusts", "a goat on the way to slaughter", "a giant hive full of very angry bees", and "a duck on speed".
• 评论员对巫巫兹拉的声音作出了各种各样的描述：除了「烦人」、「像魔鬼一般」之外，还把它比作「一群嘈吵的大象」、「一群嗡嗡狂叫的蝗虫」、「一只准备给屠宰的山羊」、「一个装满发狂的蜜蜂的巨大蜂巢」、「一只吃了摇头丸的鸭子」等等。
  Commentators have variously described the sound of vuvuzelas as "annoying" and "satanic" and compared it with "a stampede of noisy elephants", "a deafening swarm of locusts", "a goat on the way to slaughter", "a giant hive full of very angry bees", and "a duck on speed".

Words starting with 蝗

• 蝗虫huáng chónglocust
• 蝗灾huáng zāiplague of locusts
• 蝗科huáng kēAcridoidea (family containing grasshoppers, crickets and locusts)
• 蝗蝻huáng nǎnlocust nymph

Words containing 蝗

• 沙蝗shā huángdesert locust
• 飞蝗fēi huángflying locusts
• 北蝗莺běi huáng yīng(bird species of China) Middendorff's grasshopper warbler (Helopsaltes ochotensis)
• 小蝗莺xiǎo huáng yīng(bird species of China) Pallas's grasshopper warbler (Helopsaltes certhiola)
• 史氏蝗莺Shǐ shì huáng yīng(bird species of China) Styan's grasshopper warbler (Helopsaltes pleskei)
• 矛斑蝗莺máo bān huáng yīng(bird species of China) lanceolated warbler (Locustella lanceolata)
• 苍眉蝗莺cāng méi huáng yīng(bird species of China) Gray's grasshopper warbler (Helopsaltes fasciolatus)
• 黑斑蝗莺hēi bān huáng yīng(bird species of China) common grasshopper warbler (Locustella naevia)
• 鸲蝗莺qú huáng yīng(bird species of China) Savi's warbler (Locustella luscinioides)

Characters built on 皇

These share the phonetic component 皇 (huáng), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 凰huángused in 凤凰
• 煌huángbrilliant
• 惶huáng(bound form) fear; dread; anxiety; trepidation
• 徨huángused in 彷徨
• 隍huángdry moat; god of city
• 遑huángleisure
• 湟huángname of a river
• 篁huáng(bamboo); bamboo grove

Characters that look like 蝗

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

• 蜡làcandle; wax
• 蝠fú(bound form) bat
• 瞠chēngstare at sth beyond reach
• 榷quèfootbridge; toll, levy; monopoly
• 蟆mátoad
• 幡fānbanner

Sounds the same

Read huáng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 黄yellow; pornographic; to fall through
• 皇emperor; old variant of 惶
• 煌brilliant
• 凰used in 凤凰
• 簧reed (of a music instrument); spring; coil
• 惶(bound form) fear; dread; anxiety; trepidation
• 湟name of a river
• 遑leisure
• 磺sulfur
• 潢dye paper; lake; pond
• 璜semicircular jade ornament
• 徨used in 彷徨