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荒

荒 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. あれる。
  2. あれた。人のいない。草木が生えない。
  3. でたらめ。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

形声。「艸」+音符「巟」。「手つかずの土地」「あれはてる」を意味する漢語｛荒｝を表す字。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

laid waste, rough, rude, wild

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • コウJHS
Kun (native)
  • あ(らす)JHS
  • あ(れる)JHS
  • あら(い)JHS
  • すさ(ぶ)
  • すさ(む)
  • あ(らし)
Nanori (used in names)
  • ら
Other languages
  • 拼音huang1
  • 한글hwang
  • Hán-ViệtHoang

Labels show the school stage at which each Jōyō reading is taught.

Basics

Strokes
9 strokes
Radical
艸(くさ)
JIS level
Level 1
JLPT (old scale)
Level 2
Unicode
U+8352

Components

Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.

Composition (IDS): top–bottom ⿱艹巟

Words using this kanji

  • 荒木あらきlogs in bark, rough wood, unseasoned timber, new lumber
  • 荒廃こうはい荒れ果てて役に立たなくなること。ruin, destruction, devastation, waste
  • 荒波あらなみraging waves, stormy seas, hardships, troubles
  • 荒れあれ「あれ」の漢字表記。stormy weather, tempest, chaps (of skin)
  • 荒れるあれる「あれる」を参照。to become stormy, to become rough (of the sea), to fall into ruin, to become neglected
  • 荒らすあらすto lay waste, to devastate, to damage, to invade
  • 荒らげるあららげるto roughen (e.g. one's attitude), to raise (one's voice)
  • 荒野こうや荒れた野原。wasteland, wilderness, deserted land, prairie
  • 荒っぽいあらっぽいwild, violent, rough-mannered, rude
  • 荒いあらいあらいを参照。rough, wild, violent, rude
  • 荒々しいあらあらしいrough, wild, rude, harsh
  • 荒療治あらりょうじrough-and-ready (medical) treatment, drastic remedy, drastic treatment, drastic measures
  • 荒削りあらけずりrough-hewn, incomplete, unrefined, still in the process of being formed
  • 荒らし回るあらしまわるto wreak damage on, to cause trouble to, to ravage, to ransack
  • 荒唐無稽こうとうむけい根拠がなく、現実味が感じられないこと。また、そのさま。「荒唐」も「無稽」も、「根拠がないこと」の意。absurd, nonsensical, preposterous
  • 荒天こうてん激しい風雨で、荒れた天候。stormy weather
  • 荒事あらごと(theatrical) fighting scene
  • 荒れ果てるあれはてるto fall into ruin, to become dilapidated, to become run-down, to become desolate
  • 荒れ模様あれもよう天候が荒れそうな様子であること。 状況や人の機嫌が悪くなりそうな様子であること。stormy, threatening
  • 荒海あらうみrough sea, stormy sea

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Lookup codes

SKIP
2-3-6
Four Corner
4421.1
Spahn–Hadamitzky
3k6.18
Heisig
527
Nelson
3941