Chinese Character Wiki
荒

huāng

wasteland

Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 巟 represents the sound.

Components
艹 meaning component

艹  Meaning component

cao, cǎo

  

grass

巟 sound component

巟  Sound component

huāng

  

a watery waste

Evolution

荒 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
荒 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
荒 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
荒 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
荒 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

荒  

huāng

wasteland, desert; uncultivated; desolate; shortage; scarce; out of practice; absurd; to neglect

Most common words with 荒
Freq.
Word
Meaning

荒谬

absurd

荒唐

beyond belief

荒

desolate

荒野

wilderness

荒地

wasteland

Component uses

Sound component in 3 characters (2 verified)

谎 謊 慌

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*m̥ˤaŋ

xwang

huāng

wasteland; uncultivated land


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 24.2351% of movies

1430th most common character in movies

1328th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+8352

Shuowen

“荒，蕪也。从艸，巟聲。一曰艸淹地也。”


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