荒原

huāngyuán

noun #24,228

Measure Word

一片荒原 piàn

Meanings

1 wasteland
2 barren land
3 desolate plain

Characters

desolate / barren / wasteland

plain / open land

Examples

他们穿越了一片广阔的荒原。

Tāmen chuānyuè le yī piàn guǎngkuò de huāngyuán.

They crossed a vast stretch of wasteland.

战争过后，这里变成了一片荒原。

Zhànzhēng guò hòu, zhèlǐ biàn chéng le yī piàn huāngyuán.

After the war, this place turned into a wasteland.

In Pop Culture

荒原 Huāngyuán

The Waste Land — landmark modernist poem by T.S. Eliot (1922), depicting spiritual desolation after World War I.

poem

Stroke Order

荒 huāng

原 yuán