滥
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overflowing; excessive; indiscriminate
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 水 +10
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 濫
- Common rank
- #1,965
- Unicode
- U+6EE5
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
indiscriminate · Heisig RSH #2498
水 water + hidden camera
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 滥
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 滥用权力 | abuse of power | |
| 下三滥 | riffraff; scum; lowlife; despicable; inferior | |
| 滥好人 | sb who tries to be on good terms with everyone | |
| 滥用职权 | abuse of power | |
| 陈词滥调 | cliché; commonplace; truism; stereotype | |
| 滥套子 | platitude; pointless talk | |
| 粗制滥造 | to churn out large quantities without regard for quality (idiom); rough and slipshod work | |
| 滥用 | to misuse; to abuse | |
| 滥交 | to fall into bad company; to make acquaintances indiscriminately | |
| 滥情 | fickle in love; sentimentality | |
| 滥调 | hackneyed talk; platitude | |
| 滥权 | to abuse one's authority; to misuse power | |
| 滥杀 | to kill indiscriminately; to massacre | |
| 泛滥成灾 | lit. to flood (idiom); fig. rampant; in plague proportions | |
| 浮滥 | excessive; exorbitant; excessively | |
| 宁缺勿滥 | same as 寧缺毋濫|宁缺毋滥[ning4 que1 wu2 lan4] | |
| 滥刑 | indiscriminate punishment | |
| 滥杀无辜 | willfully slaughter the innocent (idiom) | |
| 俗滥 | clichéd; tacky | |
| 狂轰滥炸 | to bomb indiscriminately |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 监 — compare how they read.