荒

See also 㐬

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 艹 (“grass, plant”) + phonetic 巟 – lack of plants

Han character

荒 (radical 140 艸+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿卜女山 (TYVU), four-corner 4421₁, composition ⿱艹巟)

1. wasteland, desert
2. uncultivated

Note: The middle part could be found as 亾 instead of 亡.

Derived characters

• 慌

Descendants

• 㐬

References

• KangXi: page 1031, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30953
• Dae Jaweon: page 1490, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3209, character 2
• Unihan data for U+8352

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Cantonese

Hanzi

荒 (jyutping fong1, Yale fong1)

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Japanese

Kanji

荒 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. rough; sparse; wild

Readings

• On: こう (kō)
• Kun: あ-れる (a-reru), あら-い (ara-i), あ-らす (a-rasu), あばら / あば-ら (abara / aba-ra), すさ-む (susa-mu)
• Nanori: ら (ra)

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Korean

Hanja

荒 (hangeul 황, revised hwang, McCune-Reischauer hwang, Yale hwang)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

荒 (pinyin huāng (huang1), huǎng (huang3), kāng (kang1), Wade-Giles huang¹, huang³, k'ang¹)

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Vietnamese

Han character

荒 (hoang, hoăng)