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Kanji Detail for 荒 - "wild, rough, rugged"

荒

  • Meaning

    荒 means "wild, rough, rugged."

    1. To become wild - To be devastated; to fall into ruin.

    2. Famine - Crop failure; poor harvest.

    3. To run wild - To become disordered.

    4. To cover - A covering; an overlay.

    5. Large - To enlarge; to expand.

    6. Distant - Remote lands; frontier.

    7. Random - Haphazard; false.

    8. Rough - Violent; wild; stormy.

    9. Storm - A violent storm.

    10. Rough skin - Chapped skin.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    laid waste; rough; rude; wild

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    wasteland, desert; uncultivated

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    desolate; shortage; scarce; out of practice; absurd; uncultivated; to neglect

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    wasteland, desert; uncultivated

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Overgrown. Grass covering the ground. Therefore fields that have not been cultivated are called 荒田 (wasteland). Such as saying 開荒 (reclaim wasteland), 墾荒 (cultivate wasteland). Fields that have been cultivated but whose grain cannot mature due to disasters are also called 荒. Such as 水荒 (flood famine), 旱荒 (drought famine). | Affairs that are abandoned and discontinued are called 荒. Such as 荒功 (neglected work), 荒課 (neglected studies). | Being self-indulgent and unchecked. Such as 荒唐 (absurd), 荒謬 (preposterous). | Border regions. Such as 入荒 (entering the borderlands), 荒服 (tribute lands). Nowadays also refers to sparsely populated areas as 荒涼 (desolate). Such as saying 落荒而走 (fleeing in disarray). This is the meaning. - Does not follow 巟.
  • Onyomitip

    koh(こう) こう

  • Kunyomitip

    a.rasu(あらす) あらす

    a.reru(あれる) あれる

    ara.i(あらい) あらい

    susa.bu(すなぶ) すなぶ

    susa.mu(すさむ) すさむ

  • Strokestip

    9 strokes

  • Radicaltip

    艸 艹 (kusa・kusakammuri・soko)

  • Related Keywords
    wild rough rugged stormy violent devastated barren desolate wasteland frontier remote raw crude coarse harsh fierce turbulent tempestuous untamed savage

Sentences including 荒

  • He is often wild.

  • Who destroyed the garden?

  • The war wasted the country.

  • He is free with his money.

  • The sea was running high.

  • There is no going out on such a stormy day.

  • It's stormy.

  • The country was wasted by war.

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