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蝗

huáng
noun #59,288

Meanings

  1. 1 locust
  2. 2 grasshopper

Examples

HSK 6
一群蝗虫一夜之间把庄稼吃光了。
Yì qún huángchóng yíyè zhījiān bǎ zhuāngjia chī guāng le.
A swarm of locusts ate the crops clean overnight.
HSK 7-9
古代闹蝗灾往往意味着饥荒。
Gǔdài nào huángzāi wǎngwǎng yìwèizhe jīhuāng.
In ancient times, a locust plague often meant famine.

Tips

culture
蝗 is the locust, almost always in 蝗虫 (locust) or 蝗灾 (locust plague). Locust swarms were one of the great recurring disasters of agrarian China.

Components

radical
虫 chóng
insect
The insect radical. A locust is an insect, so this radical states the category directly and groups 蝗 with relatives like 蚂, 蜂 and 蝶.
phonetic
皇 huáng
emperor; imperial
Pure sound: standalone 皇 is huáng and 蝗 keeps it exactly. The emperor meaning does not enter the word, only the reading, paralleling 煌 and 凰.

Stroke Order

蝗 huáng