Chinese Character 荒 Meanings and components.

Form

荒

Meaning

荒 meaning[3] in English

Desolate.

Shortage.

Scarce.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 荒 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are grass radical 草字頭兒|草字头儿[cao3 … (艹) , and a watery waste (巟)

Its radical[1] is: 艸 (cao3) which means: Variant Of 草[Cao3], .艸cao3variant of …

In cangjie it is written with TYVU

How to write 荒

To write荒huang1desolate you should write a combination of 艹cao3grass radical … , 巟huang1a watery … arranged in a 吕 shape:

艹 + 巟 = 荒

荒 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 荒 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of 荒, looks as follow:

荒
Pinyin:huang1 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Desolate . Shortage . Scarce . Out Of Practice . Absurd . Uncultivated . To Neglect
艹
Pinyin:cao3 Shape:一
Meaning[3]: Grass Radical 草字頭兒|草字头儿[Cao3 Zi4 Tou2 R5]
巟
Pinyin:huang1 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: A Watery Waste . To Reach
亡
Pinyin:wang2 Shape:+
Meaning[3]: To Die . To Lose . To Be Gone . To Flee . Deceased
亠
Pinyin:tou2
Meaning[3]: 'Lid' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 8)
乚
Pinyin:yin3
Meaning[3]: Component In Chinese Characters . Archaic Variant Of 毫[Hao2] . Archaic Variant Of 乙[Yi3]
川
Pinyin:chuan1
Meaning[3]: Abbr. For Sichuan Province 四川[Si4 Chuan1] In Southwest China

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: 部bùsection 首shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: 汉hànChinese 字zìCharacter

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