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Mythic Mandarin

开荒 (kāi huāng): meaning and stroke order

开荒 (kāi huāng) means to open up land (for agriculture).

开荒

Simplified
开荒
Traditional
開荒
Pinyin
kāi huāng

Stroke order of 开荒

开

  • kāi to open (transitive or intransitive); (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start
  • 4 strokes
  • Traditional form: 開

Stroke by stroke

荒

  • huāng desolate; shortage
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 开荒

  1. kāi huāng Traditional 開荒
    • to open up land (for agriculture)

Radicals of the characters

开
Radical 廾 (Kangxi radical 55) · 4 strokes · 一 on top, 廾 below
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.

开荒 in our stories

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  • 一家二十多口人要吃饭，他只好向官府要了一块荒地，自己开荒种地。因为这块地在城东的山坡上，他就给自己起了个号，叫“东坡居士”。

    yìjiā èrshí duō kǒu rén yào chīfàn tā zhǐhǎo xiàng guānfǔ yào le yí kuài huāngdì zìjǐ kāihuāng zhòng dì yīnwèi zhè kuài dì zài chéng dōng de shānpō shàng tā jiù gěi zìjǐ qǐ le gè hào jiào Dōngpō jūshì

    With a household of over twenty to feed, he had to ask the authorities for a plot of waste land and clear it to farm himself. Because it lay on a hillside east of the town, he gave himself a name: "the Lay Buddhist of the Eastern Slope", Dongpo.

    From the story Neither wind and rain nor sunshine HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 开荒

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).