Japanese Kanji
荒kou
laid waste · rough · rude
Secondary school · JLPT N2 · 9 strokes
Laid waste, rough, rude, wild.
荒 is part of the secondary school jōyō kanji — the full set of characters used in everyday Japanese. In the JLPT proficiency test it appears at N2 (upper intermediate) level. With 9 strokes, this character appears in numerous compound words throughout written Japanese.
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