HSK 6 · Adjectives

荒凉 huāngliáng “desolate” in Chinese

Traditional 荒涼

What 荒凉 means

  1. desolate
  2. bleak

How to say 荒凉

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale荒huāng1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale凉liáng2nd tone, rising

荒凉 in a sentence

  1. 这里以前是一片荒凉的沙漠。

    Zhèlǐ yǐqián shì yí piàn huāngliáng de shāmò.

    This used to be a bleak desert.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 冬天的海边有点儿荒凉。

    Dōngtiān de hǎibiān yǒudiǎnr huāngliáng.

    The seaside is a bit desolate in winter.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 荒凉 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 荒 (huāng) with each of its parts in a different colour
荒huāngdesolate
  • 芒blade · mángMeaning part
  • 川stream · chuānSound part

芒 hints at the meaning (blade); 川 (chuān) hints at the sound. Compare it with huāng.

The character 凉 (liáng) with each of its parts in a different colour
凉liángcool
  • 冫ice · bīngMeaning part
  • 京capital city · jīngSound part

冫 hints at the meaning (ice); 京 (jīng) hints at the sound. Compare it with liáng.

How to write 荒凉

荒 9 strokes · 凉 10 strokes

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荒凉 (huāngliáng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 荒凉 (huāngliáng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 荒凉

Words with 荒

荒谬huāngmiù · absurd荒唐huāngtang · absurd

Words with 凉

凉快liángkuai · nice and cold着凉zháoliáng · to catch a cold凄凉qīliáng · desolate

More words: Adjectives

和气héqi · friendly和谐héxié · harmonious宏伟hóngwěi · magnificent华丽huálì · magnificent荒谬huāngmiù · absurd荒唐huāngtang · absurd辉煌huīhuáng · brilliant混乱hùnluàn · chaos

FAQs

荒凉 (huāngliáng) means “desolate” or “bleak”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it huāngliáng: huāng with a 1st tone, then liáng with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 荒凉 is written 荒涼. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type huangliang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 荒凉 from the suggestions. Typing huangliang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
荒凉 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.