荒唐
huāng táng
Pinyin

Definition

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

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

唐
Táng
  1. 1 Tang dynasty (618-907)
  2. 2 surname Tang
唐僧
Táng sēng
  1. 1 Xuanzang (602-664) Tang dynasty Buddhist monk and translator, who traveled to India 629-645
唐山
Táng shān
  1. 1 Tangshan prefecture level city in Hebei
拓荒者
tuò huāng zhě
  1. 1 pioneer
  2. 2 groundbreaker
荒村
huāng cūn
  1. 1 an abandoned village

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)

Sample Sentences

荒唐！美国、日本还不保留着死刑？没有死刑，那些杀人放火的坏人就更无法无天了。到时候社会还有什么安定？老百姓还怎么过日子？
huāngtang ！Měiguó 、Rìběn hái bù bǎoliú zhe sǐxíng ？méiyǒu sǐxíng ，nàxiē shārén fànghuǒ de huàirén jiù gèng wúfǎwútiān le 。dào shíhou shèhuì hái yǒu shénme āndìng ？lǎobǎixìng hái zěnme guò rìzi ？
That's absurd. The United States and Japan still have capital punishment, don't they? Without the death penalty, those evildoers committing murder and arson would be even more lawless. When that happens what stability will there be in society? How will the average citizen be able to live?
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