荒

音読おんよみ: コウ

訓読くんよみ: あら
れる・あらす

画数かくすう: 9

部首ぶしゅ: くさかんむり(艹)

Meaning

Wild / Rough / Waste / Devastate

Conjugation
Tap for 荒れる (be rough) Tap for 荒らす (wreck)
  • あらい — rough; wild (behavior/sea)
  • れる — to become rough; to be stormy; to go to ruin
  • らす — to devastate; to ravage
  • 荒野こうや — wilderness; wasteland
  • 荒波あらなみ — rough waves
  • 荒地あれち — wasteland; barren ground
  • 荒廃こうはい — devastation; ruin
  • 荒業あらわざ — daring feat; rough trick
  • 荒削あらけずり — rough-hewn; unpolished

荒 is built on the radical (くさgrass), with the phonetic part indicating the reading コウ. The top suggests overgrown vegetation; overall it evokes wild, uncultivated, rough places — and by extension, rough behavior or devastation.

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