荒
huāng HSK7

wasteland

荒 huāng
neglect verb
to neglect one's work or become out of practice

由于长期不练，他的手艺荒了。

yóu​yú cháng​qī bù liàn, tā de shǒu​yì huāng le.

His skills have grown rusty due to a lack of practice.

absurd adjective
unreasonable, wild, or far-fetched

这个理由讲得太荒了，根本不符合常理。

zhè​gè lǐ​yóu jiǎng de tài huāng le, gēn​běn bù fú​hé cháng​lǐ.

This excuse is too absurd; it doesn't make any sense at all.

desolate verb
uncultivated or overgrown land

那块地荒了很久，已经长满了没腰的杂草。

nà kuài dì huāng le hěn jiǔ, yǐ​jīng zhǎng​mǎn le mò yāo de zá​cǎo.

That plot of land has been neglected for a long time and is now overgrown with waist-high weeds.

shortage noun
a crop failure or scarcity of resources

那个地区正面临严重的粮荒。

nà gè dì​qū zhèng miàn​lín yán​zhòng de liáng huāng.

That region is facing a serious food shortage.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,328th most common 92.6 per million
Movie subtitles
1,430th most common 48.8 per million appears in 24% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
0.860 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
13.1 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+8352

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