荒凉

• 병음: huāng liáng
• 한자 분석: 荒 = 艹 + 巟 (overgrown wilderness); 凉 = 冫+ 京 (ice or cold + capital, chilling emptiness)

뜻

황량하다; 적막하고 황폐하다

Used to describe desolate landscapes, abandoned places, or emotionally bleak situations. Common in literary and descriptive writing. Conveys both physical emptiness and an emotional sense of loneliness or sadness. Closely related to 荒芜 (overgrown and neglected) but 荒凉 carries a stronger emotional and visual bleakness.

예문

1. 旅行者穿越了这片荒凉的戈壁沙漠，历经数日才抵达下一个补给站。
2. 战争结束后，这座曾经繁华的城市变得荒凉破败，几乎看不到居民的踪影。
3. 秋风萧瑟，原野一片荒凉，残败的枯叶随风在空旷的田间飘散。

사용 가이드

맥락: literature, travel writing, description, journalism

어조: melancholic

올바른 표현

• 映入眼帘的是一片荒凉的景象：断壁残垣四处可见，曾经热闹的街道如今杳无人烟。(What met the eye was a scene of utter desolation: crumbling walls and ruins everywhere, the once-bustling street now completely deserted.)
• 这首诗以荒凉的边塞景色为背景，抒发了守边将士对故乡亲人的无尽思念之情。(This poem takes a bleak frontier landscape as its backdrop, expressing the boundless longing of border-guarding soldiers for their families and homeland.)

피해야 할 표현

• 荒凉 to describe a person's emotions directly — use 孤寂 or 落寞 for human emotional bleakness; 荒凉 primarily modifies physical landscapes

기원과 역사

荒 (wild/waste) + 凉 (cold/desolate) — wild and cold; bleak desolation

문화적 배경

세대: All ages

사회적 배경: Universal