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Hanzi Character Search: 滥

6EE5

 
flood, overflow; excessive
Radical 𣱱
Strokes (without radical) 10 Total Strokes 13
Mandarin reading làn Cantonese reading laam6
Japanese on reading Japanese kun reading
Korean reading Vietnamese reading
Traditional Variant(s) flood, overflow; excessive

CEDICT Entries:

   [ làn ]    overflowing, excessive, indiscriminate
   [ làn ]    to fall into bad company, to make acquaintances indiscriminately
   [ làn ]    to denude, illegal logging, forest clearance
   [ làn xíng ]    indiscriminate punishment
   [ làn taò zi ]    platitude, pointless talk
   [ làn haǒ rén ]    sb who tries to be on good terms with everyone
   [ làn qíng ]    fickle in love, sentimentality
   [ làn quán ]    abuse of authority
   [ làn shā ]    to kill indiscriminately, to massacre
   [ làn shā ]    willfully slaughter the innocent (idiom)
   [ làn màn ]    arbitrary, indiscriminate
   [ làn yòng ]    to misuse, to abuse
   [ làn yòng quán ]    abuse of power
   [ làn yòng zhí quán ]    abuse of power
   [ làn kǎn làn ]    wanton destruction of forested lands
   [ làn ]    indiscriminately included in company (without any qualification), see 濫竽充數|滥竽充数[lan4 yu2 chong1 shu4]
   [ làn chōng shù ]    lit. to play the yu 竽 mouth organ to make up numbers (idiom); fig. to make up the numbers with inferior products, to masquerade as having an ability, token member of a group
   [ làn ]    scurrilous, to scold indiscriminately
   [ làn shāng ]    lit. floating wine goblets on a stream, the origin (of some phenomenon)
   [ làn ]    hackneyed talk, platitude
⇒    [ xià sān làn ]    riffraff, scum, lowlife, despicable, inferior
⇒    [ làn ]    clichéd, tacky
⇒    [ nìng quē làn ]    same as 寧缺毋濫|宁缺毋滥[ning4 que1 wu2 lan4]
⇒    [ nìng quē làn ]    better to have nothing (than substandard choice) (idiom); would prefer to go without than accept shoddy option
⇒    [ fàn làn ]    to be in flood, to overflow (the banks), to inundate, to spread unchecked
⇒    [ fàn làn chéng zaī ]    lit. to flood (idiom), fig. rampant, in plague proportions
⇒    [ làn ]    excessive, exorbitant, excessively
⇒    [ làn kǎn làn ]    wanton destruction of forested lands
⇒    [ kuáng hōng làn zhà ]    to bomb indiscriminately
⇒    [ zhì làn zaò ]    to churn out large quantities without regard for quality (idiom); rough and slipshod work
⇒    [ chén làn ]    cliché, commonplace, truism, stereotype

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