濫 (làn)
overflowing; excessive; indiscriminate
How 濫 is written
- Strokes
- 17
- Radical
- 氵 — water
- Traditional
- 濫
- Simplified
- 滥
Components
- 氵 water
- 臣 minister/official
- 丿 bend
- 一 one
- 丶 dot
- 皿 dish
Common words using 濫
- 泛濫 fànlàn
- to be in flood; to overflow (the banks); to inundate
- 寧缺毋濫 nìngquēwúlàn
- better to have nothing (than substandard choice) (idiom); would prefer to go without than accept shoddy option
- 泛濫成災 fànlànchéngzāi
- flood causes disaster (idiom); fig. swamped with work
- 濫交 lànjiāo
- to fall into bad company; to make acquaintances indiscriminately
- 濫用 lànyòng
- to misuse; to abuse
- 濫竽 lànyú
- indiscriminately included in company (without any qualification); see 濫竽充數|滥竽充数[lan4 yu2 chong1 shu4]
- 狂轟濫炸 kuánghōnglànzhà
- bomb indiscriminately
- 浮濫 fúlàn
- excessive; exorbitant; excessively
- 濫伐 lànfá
- to denude; illegal logging; forest clearance
- 濫殺 lànshā
- to kill indiscriminately; to massacre
- 濫觴 lànshāng
- lit. floating wine goblets on a stream; the origin (of some phenomenon)
- 濫調 làndiào
- hackneyed talk; platitude
濫 in a sentence
權力不能濫用，否則會出問題。
Quánlì bùnéng lànyòng, fǒuzé huì chū wèntí.
“Power must not be abused, otherwise problems will arise.”
How common is 濫?
濫 is the 2,277th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 98% of all running text.
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