# 荒 — Wild

Frequency rank 1019 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Rarer in this ranking, but still part of the 2,608-character published set.

More common than 丁 (Street), less common than 句 (Paragraph).

- On’yomi: あ
- Kun’yomi: —
- Radical: 艸 Grass (Kangxi 140)
- Frequency path: Level VIII of XX

Flowers on top, a tsunami in the middle, and a river at the bottom — flowers drowning in a tsunami-fed river, nature gone completely wild.

In words:

- 荒い あらい — rough,rude,wild
- 荒らす あらす — to lay waste;to devastate;to damage;to invade;to break into
- 荒廃 こうはい — ruin

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