荒
HSK 7freq #14965
Meanings
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- 1.desolate
- 2.shortage
- 3.scarce
- 4.out of practice
- 5.absurd
- 6.uncultivated
- 7.to neglect
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Wiktionary
- 1.wasteland; uncultivated land; desert
- 2.uncultivated; barren; desolate
- 3.unreasonable; absurd
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋs): semantic 艹 (“grass, plant”) + phonetic 巟 (OC *hmaːŋ). Note: The middle part could be found as 亾 instead of 亡. From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ma (“not”). Cognate with 亡 (OC *maŋ, “to disappear”). The voiceless initial is possibly from the devoicing effect of an early (i.e. Proto-Sino-Tibetan) causative prefix *s- on 亡 (i.e. PST *s-maŋ > *hmaŋ > Middle Chinese hwɑŋ) which was subsequently lost.
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
花光他們所有的錢會很荒謬。
It would be ridiculous to spend all their money.
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Derived terms
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