糧荒

Chinese

		grain; provisions	out of practice; uncultivated
trad. (糧荒)		糧	荒
simp. (粮荒)		粮	荒

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): liánghuāng

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄤˊ ㄏㄨㄤ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): loeng⁴ fong¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: liánghuāng
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄤˊ ㄏㄨㄤ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: liánghuang
    • Wade–Giles: liang²-huang¹
    • Yale: lyáng-hwāng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lianghuang
    • Palladius: лянхуан (ljanxuan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /li̯ɑŋ³⁵ xu̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: loeng⁴ fong¹
    • Yale: lèuhng fōng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: loeng⁴ fong¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: lêng⁴ fong¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lœːŋ²¹ fɔːŋ⁵⁵/

Noun

糧荒

1. food shortage; famine

Synonyms

• 災荒／灾荒 (zāihuāng)
• 饑荒／饥荒 (jīhuāng)
• 饑饉／饥馑 (jījǐn) (literary)