荒 huāng in a sentence
Waste (uncultivated land - desolate - neglect)
荒 (huāng) means Waste (uncultivated land - desolate - neglect). Below are 6 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
这个结论非常 荒 谬。
Zhège jiélùn fēicháng huāngmiù.
This conclusion is utterly absurd.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 荒谬
冬天的海边显得格外 荒 凉。
Dōngtiān de hǎibiān xiǎnde géwài huāngliáng.
The seaside in winter looks especially bleak.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 荒凉
他的说法 荒 谬得让人发笑。
Tā de shuōfǎ huāngmiù de ràng rén fāxiào.
His claim is so preposterous it makes one laugh.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 荒谬
他年轻时做过不少 荒 唐事。
Tā niánqīng shí zuò guo bù shǎo huāngtang shì.
He did quite a few foolish things when he was young.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 荒唐
这里从前是一片 荒 凉的沙地。
Zhèlǐ cóngqián shì yí piàn huāngliáng de shādì.
This used to be a stretch of desolate sand.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 荒凉
这么 荒 唐的要求，谁也不会答应。
Zhème huāngtang de yāoqiú, shéi yě bú huì dāying.
Nobody would agree to such an outrageous demand.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 荒唐
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Questions about 荒
How is 荒 used in a sentence?
This page shows 6 sentences using 荒 (huāng, "Waste (uncultivated land - desolate - neglect)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 荒 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 荒 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
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