狂
kuáng HSK5

insane, mad

狂 kuáng
violent adjective
powerful, intense, and uncontrolled physical force

暴雨中，海面上掀起了巨大的狂浪。

bào​yǔ zhōng, hǎi​miàn shàng xiān​qǐ le jù​dà de kuáng làng.

Huge wild waves rose on the sea during the rainstorm.

wild adjective
unrestrained, unbridled, or arrogant in behavior

那个年轻人气焰嚣张，说话非常狂。

nà​gè nián​qīng​rén qì​yàn xiāo​zhāng, shuō​huà fēi​cháng kuáng.

That young man is very arrogant and speaks very wildly.

mad noun
mentally deranged or suffering from psychosis

他听到家人遇难的噩耗后，几乎陷入了发狂的状态。

tā tīng​dào jiā​rén yù​nàn de è​hào hòu, jī​hū xiàn​rù le fā​kuáng de zhuàng​tài.

He was driven almost to the point of madness after hearing the tragic news of his family's death.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,147th most common 125.4 per million
Movie subtitles
691st most common 191.1 per million appears in 60% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
55.7 per million appears in 20% of films
Written text
45.8 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+72C2

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)