爛 (làn)
rotten; soft/mushy; bad (quality)
How 爛 is written
- Strokes
- 21
- Radical
- 火 — fire
- Traditional
- 爛
- Simplified
- 烂
Common words using 爛
- 燦爛 cànlàn
- to glitter; brilliant; splendid
- 海枯石爛 hǎikūshílàn
- lit. when the seas run dry and the stones go soft; forever; 'till the end of time
- 爛漫 lànmàn
- brightly colored; unaffected (i.e. behaving naturally)
- 破爛 pòlàn
- worn-out; rotten; dilapidated
- 糜爛 mílàn
- dissipated
- 絢爛 xuànlàn
- splendid; gorgeous; dazzling
- 腐爛 fǔlàn
- to rot; to become gangrenous
- 撞爛 zhuànglàn
- to destroy by smashing; smashed up
- 滾瓜爛熟 gǔnguālànshú
- lit. ripe as a melon that rolls from its vine (idiom); fig. to know fluently; to know sth inside-out; to know sth by heart
- 潰爛 kuìlàn
- to fester; to ulcerate
- 焦頭爛額 jiāotóulàné
- lit. beaten head and scorched brow (idiom); beaten black and blue; fig. in trouble; in terrible shape
- 爛泥 lànní
- ooze
爛 in a sentence
這蘋果爛掉了，丟掉吧。
Zhè píngguǒ làndiào le, diūdiào ba.
“This apple is rotten; throw it away.”
How common is 爛?
爛 is the 1,752nd most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 96.1% of all running text.
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