烂
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soft; mushy; well-cooked and soft; to rot; to decompose; rotten; worn out; chaotic; messy; utterly; thoroughly; crappy; bad
- HSK 3.0
- Level 5
- Old HSK
- Level 5
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 火 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 爛
- Common rank
- #1,213
- Unicode
- U+70C2
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Formation & memory
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Words with 烂
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 好记性不如烂笔头 | the palest ink is better than the best memory (idiom) | |
| 下三烂 | variant of 下三濫|下三滥[xia4 san1 lan4] | |
| 烂好人 | sb who tries to be on good terms with everyone | |
| 肉烂在锅里 | lit. the meat falls apart as it stews, but it all stays in the pot (idiom); fig. some of u… | |
| 烂人 | (coll.) scumbag; lowlife; asshole | |
| 白烂 | (slang) stupid; ridiculous | |
| 三寸不烂之舌 | to have a silver tongue; to have the gift of the gab | |
| 度烂 | see 賭爛|赌烂[du3 lan4] | |
| 比烂 | to compare two unsatisfactory things; to argue that others have similar or worse faults (a… | |
| 烂舌头 | to gossip; to blab; a blab-mouth | |
| 烂尾楼 | uncompleted building; building whose construction has run into difficulties and stopped | |
| 烂尾 | (of a construction project etc) unfinished; derailed (due to critical setbacks) | |
| 烂桃花 | unhappy love affair | |
| 烂片 | dud movie | |
| 烂泥糊不上墙 | see 爛泥扶不上牆|烂泥扶不上墙[lan4 ni2 fu2 bu4 shang4 qiang2] | |
| 烂泥扶不上墙 | useless (idiom); worthless; inept | |
| 烂大街 | (coll.) (of a fashion item, song etc) to be everywhere now; to be nothing special anymore;… | |
| 天真烂漫 | (idiom) innocent and unaffected | |
| 烂漫天真 | see 天真爛漫|天真烂漫[tian1 zhen1 lan4 man4] | |
| 破烂 | worn-out; dilapidated; tattered; ragged; (coll.) rubbish; junk |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 兰 — compare how they read.