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Kanji Detail for 荒 - "rough, to become wild, to run wild"

荒

  • Meaning

    荒 means "rough, to become wild, to run wild."

    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.

  • Words using 荒

    • 荒木 あらき Listen logs in bark; rough wood; unseasoned timber
    • 荒廃 こうはい Listen ruin; destruction; devastation
    • 荒れ あれ Listen stormy weather; tempest; chaps (of skin)
    • 荒波 あらなみ Listen raging waves; stormy seas; hardships
    • 荒れる あれる Listen to become stormy; to become rough (of the sea); to fall into ruin
    • 荒らす あらす Listen to lay waste; to devastate; to damage
    • 荒らげる あららげる Listen to roughen (e.g. one's attitude); to raise (one's voice)
    • 荒っぽい あらっぽい Listen wild; violent; rough-mannered

  • Four-character idioms with 荒

    • 荒唐無稽 こうとうむけい Listen absurd; nonsensical; preposterous
    • 流連荒亡 りゅうれんこうぼう Listen spending all one's time in idle amusement away from home; being absorbed in self-indulgent pleasures
    • 満目荒涼 まんもくこうりょう Listen all nature being bleak and desolate; scene looking desolate and forlorn as far as the eye can see

  • Tattoo check: 荒

    • Verified meaning: rough, to become wild, to run wild
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read あら, あらおか, あらさき, あらし)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 荒

    Given names 荒(すさむ)Listen

    Surnames 荒(あら)Listen 荒(あらおか)Listen 荒(あらさき)Listen 荒(あらし)Listen 荒(あらはま)Listen 荒(あらら)Listen 荒(あららぎ)Listen 荒(あれ)Listen 荒(こう)Listen

  • 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.

  • Onyomi

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    koh(コウ) コウ

  • Kunyomi

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    a.rasu(あ-らす) あ-らす

    a.reru(あ-れる) あ-れる

    ara.i(あら-い) あら-い

    arashi(あらし) あらし

    susa.bu(すさ-ぶ) すさ-ぶ

    susa.mu(すさ-む) すさ-む

  • Strokes

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    9 strokes

  • Radical

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    艸 艹 (kusa・kusakammuri・soko)

  • Related Keywords

    to become wild rough to run wild famine storm distant large random to cover violent rampage desolate harsh barren wasteland uncultivated devastated coarse fierce 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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