HSK 6 · Adjectives

荒唐 huāngtang “absurd” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 荒唐 means

  1. absurd
  2. preposterous
  3. beyond belief
  4. intemperate
  5. dissipated

How to say 荒唐

  • 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 neutral tone: short and light, with no contour of its own唐tangneutral tone, light and short

Grey pinyin is a neutral tone: say it short and light. More on the neutral tone

荒唐 in a sentence

  1. 多么荒唐的故事！

    Duōme huāngtang de gùshi!

    What an absurd story!

    Sentence #5691274 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 您这么做很荒唐。

    Nín zhème zuò hěn huāngtang.

    It’s absurd of you to do this.

    Sentence #487505 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 这一切在我看来都颇为荒唐。

    Zhè yíqiè zài wǒ kànlái dōu pōwéi huāngtang.

    To me, all of this seems rather absurd.

    Sentence #1855068 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 荒唐 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 唐 (táng) with each of its parts in a different colour
唐tángto exaggeratelight in 荒唐
  • 广shelter · guǎng
  • 肀pen
  • 口mouth · kǒu

How to write 荒唐

荒 9 strokes · 唐 10 strokes

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

Words related to 荒唐

Words with 荒

荒凉huāngliáng · desolate荒谬huāngmiù · absurd

More words: Adjectives

宏伟hóngwěi · magnificent华丽huálì · magnificent荒凉huāngliáng · desolate荒谬huāngmiù · absurd辉煌huīhuáng · brilliant混乱hùnluàn · chaos混浊hùnzhuó · murky坚定jiāndìng · firm

FAQs

荒唐 (huāngtang) means “absurd” or “preposterous”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it huāngtang: huāng with a 1st tone, then tang with a neutral tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 荒唐 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type huangtang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 荒唐 from the suggestions. Typing huangtang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
荒唐 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 from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.