落荒

落荒

Chinese

		to fall; to drop (behind); leave behind	out of practice; uncultivated
trad. (落荒)		落	荒
simp. #(落荒)		落	荒

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): luòhuāng

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄨㄛˋ ㄏㄨㄤ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lok⁶ fong¹
• Min Nan (POJ): lo̍k-hong

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: luòhuāng
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄨㄛˋ ㄏㄨㄤ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: luohhuang
    • IPA ^(key): /lu̯ɔ⁵¹ xu̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: lok⁶ fong¹
    • Yale: lohk fōng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lok⁹ fong¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: log⁶ fong¹
    • IPA ^(key): /lɔːk̚² fɔːŋ⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lo̍k-hong
    • Tâi-lô: lo̍k-hong
    • Phofsit Daibuun: loghofng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /lɔk̚⁴⁻³² hɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /lɔk̚¹²¹⁻²¹ hɔŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /lɔk̚²⁴⁻²² hɔŋ³³/

Verb

落荒

1. (literary) to flee while staying off of the main roads and highways; to flee into the wilds

Derived terms

落荒而走 (luòhuāng ér zǒu)

落荒而逃 (luòhuāng ér táo)