荒

荒 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 廿卜女山 (TYVU), four-corner 4421₁, composition ⿱艹巟)

• 慌, 謊

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1031, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30953
• Dae Jaweon: page 1490, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3209, character 2
• Unihan data for U+8352

• Unihan data for U+FAB3

Historical forms of the character 荒
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *hmaːŋ, *hmaːŋs) : semantic 艹 (“grass, plant”) + phonetic 巟 (OC *hmaːŋ). Note: The middle part could be found as 亾 instead of 亡.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ma (“not”). Cognate with 亡 (OC *maŋ, “to disappear”). The voiceless initial is possibly from the devoicing effect of an early (i.e. Proto-Sino-Tibetan) causative prefix *s- on 亡 (i.e. PST *s-maŋ > *hmaŋ > Middle Chinese hwɑŋ) which was subsequently lost.

荒

1. wasteland; uncultivated land; desert
2. uncultivated; barren; desolate
3. unreasonable; absurd

(Jōyō kanji)

1. uncultivated, wild
2. desolate, barren

• Go-on: こう (kō, Jōyō)^{←くわう (kwau, historical)}
• Kan-on: こう (kō, Jōyō)^{←くわう (kwau, historical)}
• Kun: あれる (areru, 荒れる, Jōyō)、あらい (arai, 荒い, Jōyō)、あらす (arasu, 荒らす, Jōyō)、あばら (abara, 荒)、あばら (abara, 荒ら)、すさむ (susamu, 荒む)
• Nanori: ら (ra)

荒 (eumhun 거칠 황 (geochil hwang))

1. rough; sparse; wild

荒 (eumhun 공허할 강 (gongheohal gang))

1. empty, blank

荒: Hán Nôm readings: hoang, hoăng

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