滥 — Chinese character
滥
làn
to flood, to overflow; excessive
- Pinyin
- làn
- Radical
- 85 ⽔ (Water)
- Strokes
- 13
- Components
- 氵 监
- Formation
- pictophonetic — water; meaning component 氵; sound component 监
- Traditional
- 濫
Common words with 滥
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 滥用 (濫用) | làn yòng | to misuse; to abuse |
| 泛滥 (氾濫) | fàn làn | to overflow; to inundate; to flood; (fig.) to proliferate unchecked |
| 泛滥 (泛濫) | fàn làn | variant of 泛滥 (fàn làn) |
| 滥用职权 (濫用職權) | làn yòng zhí quán | abuse of power |
| 滥杀无辜 (濫殺無辜) | làn shā wú gū | willfully slaughter the innocent (idiom) |
| 滥权 (濫權) | làn quán | to abuse one's authority; to misuse power |
| 滥交 (濫交) | làn jiāo | to fall into bad company; to make acquaintances indiscriminately |
| 粗制滥造 (粗製濫造) | cū zhì làn zào | to churn out large quantities without regard for quality (idiom); rough and slipshod work |
| 下三滥 (下三濫) | xià sān làn | riffraff; scum |
| 泛滥成灾 (泛濫成災) | fàn làn chéng zāi | lit. to flood (idiom); fig. rampant |
| 陈词滥调 (陳詞濫調) | chén cí làn diào | cliché; commonplace |
| 滥杀 (濫殺) | làn shā | to kill indiscriminately; to massacre |
English words written with 滥
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