huāng
wasteland
Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 巟 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
huāng
wasteland, desert; uncultivated; desolate; shortage; scarce; out of practice; absurd; to neglect
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*m̥ˤaŋ | xwang | huāng | wasteland; uncultivated land |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 24.2351% of movies
1430th most common character in movies
1328th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 9 |
Unicode | U+8352 |
Shuowen | “荒,蕪也。从艸,巟聲。一曰艸淹地也。” |
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