荒 huāng

1. huāng adjective waste
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (CCD '荒' 1; FE '荒' 1)
2. huāng noun wasteland; uncultivated land
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 荒地 (CCD '荒' 2)
3. huāng adjective barren; desolate
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 荒凉 (CCD '荒' 2; FE '荒' 1; GHDC '荒' 2)
4. huāng verb to neglect
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 荒疏 (ABCE huāng 3 '荒'; CCD '荒' 5; FE '荒' 4; GHDC '荒' 1)
5. huāng adjective absurd
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (CCD '荒' 7; FE '荒' 2; GHDC '荒' 6)
6. huāng adjective scarcity; shortage
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (CCD '荒' 6; FE '荒' 3)
7. huāng adjective uncertain
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Dialect
   Notes: (CCD '荒' 8)
8. huāng verb to indulge
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (CCD '荒' 9)
9. huāng proper noun Huang
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
   Notes: (FE '荒' 5)
10. huāng verb to have
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 有 (GHDC '荒' 8)
11. huāng adjective large
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 大 (ABCE huāng 4 '荒'; GHDC '荒' 10)
12. huāng noun borderland; frontier
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 边疆 (GHDC '荒' 11)
13. huāng verb to cover
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 掩 (GHDC '荒' 9)
14. huāng adverb suddenly
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In place of 恍 (GHDC '荒' 9)
15. huāng adjective weed covered
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 芜 (ABCE huāng 2 '荒')

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• 荒诞不经(荒誕不經) absurd; preposterous; ridiculous
• 荒原 wasteland
• 碱荒(鹼荒) saline waste land
• 天荒地老 until the end of time
• 荒怠 neglectful and lazy
• 剧荒(劇荒) no tv shows to watch
• 灾荒(災荒) a famine; a natural disaster
• 荒淫无耻(荒淫無恥) shameless
• 蛮荒(蠻荒) savage; wild; uncivilized territory
• 空荒 desolate; wild
• 荒草 weeds; brush (vegetation); wild grassland
• 备荒(備荒) to prepare against natural disasters
• 荒村 an abandoned village
• 荒瘠 desolate and poor; infertile
• 打饑荒 to suffer from crop failure ; to quarrel ; for trouble to arise
• 色荒 wallowing in lust
• 打饥荒(打飢荒) to suffer from crop failure ; for trouble to arise ; to quarrel
• 荒漠化 desertification
• 垦荒(墾荒) to open up land
• 荒谬(荒謬) absurd; ridiculous
• 荒淫 licentious
• 烧荒(燒荒) to clear waste land or forest by burning; slash-and-burn
• 拾荒 to glean; to collect scraps; to eke out a meager living
• 荒芜(荒蕪) overgrown; grown wild
• 荒漠伯劳(荒漠伯勞) isabelline shrike (Lanius isabellinus)
• 荒谬绝伦(荒謬絕倫) absolutely ridiculous; preposterous; the height of folly
• 荒地 wasteland; uncultivated land
• 荒岛(荒島) barren or uninhabited island
• 荒郊 desolate area outside a town
• 抛荒(拋荒) to lie idle (of arable land); rusty because of lack of practice
• 荒秽(荒穢) overgrown; grown wild
• 荒乱(荒亂) social disorder
• 荒诞无稽(荒誕無稽) ridiculous; absurd
• 荒怪不经(荒怪不經) absurd; unthinkable
• 荒唐 exaggerated ; absurd ; flustered
• 荒烟蔓草(荒煙蔓草) abandoned by men and choked with weeds; desolate
• 荒凉(荒涼) barren; desolate
• 荒井 Arai (Japanese surname)
• 电荒(電荒) shortage of electricity
• 荒废(荒廢) to abandon; to lie in waste; to neglect
• 荒弃(荒棄) to abandon; to let go to waste
• 遐荒 an out of the way place
• 拓荒者 pioneer; groundbreaker
• 荒唐无稽(荒唐無稽) ridiculous; absurd
• 北大荒 the Great Northern Wilderness (in Northern China)
• 开荒(開荒) to open up land (for agriculture)
• 荒野 wilderness
• 拉饥荒(拉飢荒) to owe money
• 粮荒(糧荒) famine; critical shortage of grain
• 丧荒(喪荒) a mourning ceremony

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荒政

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• 卷一百七十三 志第一百二十六 食貨上一 Volume 173 Treatises 126: Finance and Economics 1a History of Song 宋史 — count: 24
• 卷四十七　志第二十八:　食貨二 田制 租賦 牛頭稅 Volume 47 Treatises 28: Finance and Economics 2 - Administration of Farming, Rent and Taxes, Taxes on Oxes History of Jin 金史 — count: 13
• 卷十四 志第六 州郡上 Volume 14 Treatises 6: Administrative Districts 1 Book of Southern Qi 南齊書 — count: 13
• 卷十一 大荒西經 Chapter 11: Classic of the Great Wilderness - West Classic of Mountains and Seas 山海經 — count: 13
• 卷三十二 Scroll 32 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 13
• 卷二十 志第十 樂二 Volume 20 Treatises 10: Music 2 Book of Song 宋書 — count: 11
• 卷九 大荒東經 Chapter 9: Classic of the Great Wilderness - East Classic of Mountains and Seas 山海經 — count: 11
• 卷十 大荒南經 Chapter 10: Classic of the Great Wilderness - South Classic of Mountains and Seas 山海經 — count: 10
• 卷十二 大荒北經 Chapter 12: Classic of the Great Wilderness - North Classic of Mountains and Seas 山海經 — count: 10
• 卷二十八 Scroll 28 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 10

Collocations

• 大荒 (大荒) 大荒則不舉 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 天官冢宰 第一 1. Office of the Heaven and Prime Minister — count: 15
• 荒服 (荒服) 五百里荒服 — Book of Documents 尚書, 夏書 禹貢 Xia Shu - Tribute of Yu — count: 14
• 荒落 (荒落) 歲名曰大荒落 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷三　天文訓 Chapter 3: Celestial Phenomena — count: 9
• 荒侯 (荒侯) 封樊噲子荒侯市人元年 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《高祖功臣侯者年表》 Yearly Table of the Officials who became Marquises in the Time of Gaozu — count: 9
• 八荒 (八荒) 以望八荒 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷二十　泰族訓 Chapter 20: superior Lineage — count: 9
• 凶荒 (兇荒) 以待兇荒 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 地官司徒 第二 2. Office of Earth and Minster of Education and Social Welfare — count: 8
• 淫荒 (淫荒) 淫荒昏亂 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧陳‧宛丘 Lessons from the states - Odes of Chen - Wan Qiu — count: 8
• 荒宁 (荒寧) 不敢荒寧 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 無逸 Zhou Shu - Against Luxurious Ease — count: 6
• 四荒 (四荒) 四荒悅服 — Xin Shu 新書, Scroll 4 — count: 6
• 不敢荒 (不敢荒) 不敢荒寧 — Book of Documents 尚書, 周書 無逸 Zhou Shu - Against Luxurious Ease — count: 5