荒 (huāng): meaning and stroke order
荒 (huāng) means desolate, shortage, scarce, out of practice, absurd, uncultivated, to neglect.
荒
- Simplified
- 荒
- Traditional
- 荒 (same form)
- Pinyin
- huāng
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Stroke order of 荒
荒
- huāng desolate; shortage
- 9 strokes
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Meaning of 荒
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huāng
- desolate
- shortage
- scarce
- out of practice
- absurd
- uncultivated
- to neglect
Radical and structure
- 荒
- Radical 艸 (Kangxi radical 140) · 10 strokes · 艹 on top, 巟 below
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
Words with 荒
- 荒地 huāng dì wasteland; uncultivated land
- 荒山 huāng shān desert mountain; barren hill
- 荒年 huāng nián year of famine
- 荒野 huāng yě wilderness
- 开荒 kāi huāng to open up land (for agriculture)
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).