乱
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in confusion or disorder; in a confused state of mind; disorder; upheaval; riot; illicit sexual relations; to throw into disorder; to mix up; indiscriminate; random; arbitrary
- HSK 3.0
- Level 3
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 乙 +6
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 乱
- Common rank
- #544
- Unicode
- U+4E71
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Formation & memory
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How 乱 is formed
How to remember it
chaos · Heisig RSH #100
舌 tongue + fishhook
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 乱
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 天下大乱 | the whole country in rebellion | |
| 出乱子 | to go wrong; to get into trouble | |
| 乱成一团 | in a great mess; chaotic | |
| 义和乱 | the Boxer uprising | |
| 乱子 | disturbance; trouble | |
| 心乱如麻 | one's thoughts in a whirl (idiom); confused; disconcerted; upset | |
| 乱动 | to fiddle with; to tamper with; to meddle with; to move randomly; to flail about | |
| 动乱 | turmoil; upheaval; unrest | |
| 安史之乱 | An-Shi Rebellion (755-763) of 安祿山|安禄山[An1 Lu4 shan1] and 史思明[Shi3 Si1 ming2], a catastroph… | |
| 乱花 | to spend recklessly; to waste money | |
| 乱道 | see 亂說|乱说[luan4 shuo1] | |
| 乱数 | (Tw) random number | |
| 乱石 | rocks; stones; rubble; riprap | |
| 胡言乱语 | babbling nonsense (idiom); crazy and unfounded ravings; double Dutch | |
| 乱民 | rebels | |
| 作乱 | to rebel; to rise in revolt | |
| 乱来 | to act recklessly; to mess around | |
| 乱花钱 | to spend money recklessly; to squander | |
| 战乱 | chaos of war | |
| 乱世 | the world in chaos; troubled times; (in Buddhism) the mortal world |