落荒

Chinese

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

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): luòhuāng

(Zhuyin): ㄌㄨㄛˋ ㄏㄨㄤ
Cantonese (Jyutping): lok⁶ fong¹
Min Nan (POJ): lo̍k-hong

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

(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)

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