拓荒

Chinese

		expand; support on palm; to develop expand; support on palm; to develop; to open up; make rubbing	out of practice; uncultivated
trad. (拓荒)		拓	荒
simp. ^#(拓荒)		拓	荒

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): tuòhuāng

(Zhuyin): ㄊㄨㄛˋ ㄏㄨㄤ
Cantonese (Jyutping): tok³ fong¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): thok-hong

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: tuòhuāng
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄛˋ ㄏㄨㄤ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: tuòhuang
  - Wade–Giles: tʻo⁴-huang¹
  - Yale: twò-hwāng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tuohhuang
  - Palladius: тохуан (toxuan)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰu̯ɔ⁵¹ xu̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: tok³ fong¹
  - Yale: tok fōng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tok⁸ fong¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: tog³ fong¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰɔːk̚³ fɔːŋ⁵⁵/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thok-hong
  - Tâi-lô: thok-hong
  - Phofsit Daibuun: tokhofng
  - IPA (Xiamen): /tʰɔk̚³²⁻⁴ hɔŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰɔk̚⁵⁻²⁴ hɔŋ³³/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰɔk̚³²⁻⁵ hɔŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Taipei): /tʰɔk̚³²⁻⁴ hɔŋ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰɔk̚³²⁻⁴ hɔŋ⁴⁴/

Verb

拓荒

(agriculture, literally) to reclaim wasteland; to open up land (for agriculture)
(figurative) to explore in a new field

Synonyms

(to reclaim wasteland): 開荒／开荒 (kāihuāng), 墾荒／垦荒 (kěnhuāng)

Derived terms

拓荒者 (tuòhuāngzhě)

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