(kuáng) - mad, crazy, wild in Mandarin
kuángTraditional: 狂
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Translation
mad, crazy, wild
Word origin
A phono-semantic character: the beast radical 犭gives the meaning, originally a maddened dog, hence mad or wild, and 王 (wáng) supplies the sound.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 犭(beast radical) + 王 (wáng, phonetic)
Stroke order
狂
Examples
。
That is a crazy idea.
。
He loves her madly.
群。
The crowd went wild.
。
He was wild with joy.
风。
The wind is really wild today.
狂 (kuáng) means mad or wild; with 疯 it forms 疯狂 (fēngkuáng), crazy or frantic.
Appears in 1 word
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 狂.
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