荒蕪

See also: 荒芜

Chinese

out of practice; uncultivated overgrown with weeds
trad. (荒蕪) 荒 蕪
simp. (荒芜) 荒 芜

Pronunciation



Rime
Character 荒 蕪
Reading # 1/2 1/1
Initial (聲) 曉 (32) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 唐 (102) 虞 (24)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division (等) I III
Fanqie 呼光切 武夫切
Baxter xwang mju
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/hwɑŋ/ /mɨo/
Pan
Wuyun
/hʷɑŋ/ /mio/
Shao
Rongfen
/xuɑŋ/ /mio/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/hwaŋ/ /muə̆/
Li
Rong
/xuɑŋ/ /mio/
Wang
Li
/xuɑŋ/ /mĭu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/xwɑŋ/ /mi̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
huāng wú
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
fong1 mou4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 荒 蕪
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
huāng wú
Middle
Chinese
‹ xwang › ‹ mju ›
Old
Chinese
/*m̥ˁaŋ/ /*m(r)a/
English wasteland; uncultivated land overgrown with weeds

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 荒 蕪
Reading # 1/2 1/1
No. 12649 13120
Phonetic
component
亡 無
Rime
group
陽 魚
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
荒 無
Old
Chinese
/*hmaːŋ/ /*ma/

Adjective

荒蕪

  1. lying in waste; overgrown
    • 田疇荒蕪,資用乏匱。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
      田畴荒芜,资用乏匮。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
      From: Guoyu, circa 4th century BCE
      Tiánchóu huāngwú, zīyòng fákuì. [Pinyin]
      (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Synonyms

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (荒蕪):
  • → Vietnamese: hoang vu (荒蕪)

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
荒蕪

Adjective

荒蕪

  1. chữ Hán form of hoang vu (“wild; unaffected by human's activities”).
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