Kanji1 / 9
荒 kanji
laid waste, rough, rude, wild
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N2 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
コウ
Kun readings
あらすあれるあらいすさぶすさむあらし
Words with 荒
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —備荒貯蓄famine-relief fund
- —救荒作物hardy plants
- —荒涼落莫scene looking desolate and forlorn
- —満目荒涼all nature being bleak and desolate; scene looking desolate and forlorn as far as the eye can see
- —流連荒亡spending all one's time in idle amusement away from home; being absorbed in self-indulgent pleasures
- —荒神目抜Sebastes iracundus (species of rockfish)
- —三宝荒神guardian deity of the three jewels (Buddha, Dharma and Sangha); three-person saddle
- —寒地荒原cold desert; arctic desert; fell-field
- —備荒作物crops planted to stave off famine (e.g., wheat, barley, buckwheat, potatoes); emergency crops
- —荒寥desolate; dreary; bleak
- —荒唐無けいabsurd; nonsensical; preposterous