荡
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to wash; to squander; to sweep away; to move; to shake; dissolute; pond
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 艸 +6
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 盪
- Common rank
- #1,195
- Unicode
- U+8361
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Formation & memory
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How 荡 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
Hot water 汤 wiping out plant life 艹; 汤 also provides the pronunciation
How to remember it
licentious · Heisig RSH #1757
flower + 汤 soup
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 荡
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 荡然无存 | to obliterate completely; to vanish from the face of the earth | |
| 回肠荡气 | soul-stirring (of drama, poem or artwork); heart-rending; deeply moving | |
| 荡气回肠 | heart-rending (drama, music, poem etc); deeply moving | |
| 动荡 | variant of 動蕩|动荡[dong4 dang4] | |
| 动荡 | unrest (social or political); turmoil; upheaval; commotion | |
| 脑力激荡 | to brainstorm | |
| 空空荡荡 | deserted | |
| 空空荡荡 | absolutely empty (space); complete vacuum | |
| 流荡 | to float; to tramp; to rove | |
| 倾家荡产 | to lose a family fortune (idiom) | |
| 荡然 | variant of 蕩然|荡然[dang4 ran2] | |
| 荡然 | vanished from the face of the earth; all gone; nothing left | |
| 回荡 | to resound; to reverberate; to echo | |
| 一瓶子不响，半瓶子晃荡 | lit. a full bottle makes no sound; a half-filled bottle sloshes (idiom); fig. empty vessel… | |
| 波荡 | heave; surge | |
| 放荡 | licentious; wanton; morally unrestrained | |
| 游荡 | to wander; to roam about; to loaf about; to be idle | |
| 荡秋千 | to swing (on a swing) | |
| 脑震荡 | (med.) cerebral concussion | |
| 空荡荡 | empty; deserted |