荒芜

荒蕪

huāngwú

adjective #19,449

Meanings

1 overgrown and desolate
2 uncultivated
3 lying waste

Characters

barren; desolate; wild

overgrown with weeds

Examples

这片土地已经荒芜了很多年。

Zhè piàn tǔdì yǐjīng huāngwú le hěn duō nián.

This land has been lying waste for many years.

战争过后，田野一片荒芜。

Zhànzhēng guòhòu, tiányě yī piàn huāngwú.

After the war, the fields were completely desolate.

Tips

memory

荒 (barren/wild) + 芜 (overgrown with weeds) — both characters contain the grass radical (艹), painting a picture of land taken over by wild vegetation.

Stroke Order

荒 huāng

芜 wú