烧荒 (燒荒)
shāo huāng
Pinyin

Definition

烧荒 (燒荒)
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shāo huāng
  1. to clear waste land or forest by burning
  2. slash-and-burn (agriculture)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

拓荒者
tuò huāng zhě
  1. 1 pioneer
  2. 2 groundbreaker
荒唐
huāng táng
  1. 1 beyond belief
  2. 2 preposterous
  3. 3 absurd
  4. 4 intemperate
  5. 5 dissipated
荒村
huāng cūn
  1. 1 an abandoned village
兵荒马乱
bīng huāng mǎ luàn
  1. 1 soldiers munity and troops rebel (idiom); turmoil and chaos of war
地老天荒
dì lǎo tiān huāng

Idioms (6)

兵荒马乱
bīng huāng mǎ luàn
  1. 1 soldiers munity and troops rebel (idiom); turmoil and chaos of war
天荒地老
tiān huāng dì lǎo
  1. 1 until the end of time (idiom)
业荒于嬉
yè huāng yú xī
  1. 1 to be distracted from one's work and fail to achieve results (idiom)
荒无人烟
huāng wú rén yān
  1. 1 desolate and uninhabited (idiom)
荒烟蔓草
huāng yān màn cǎo
  1. 1 lit. abandoned by men and choked with weeds
  2. 2 desolate (idiom)