亂 — Chinese character
亂
luàn
anarchy, chaos; revolt
- Pinyin
- luàn
- Radical
- 5 ⼄ (Second)
- Strokes
- 13
- Components
- 爫 冂 厶 又 乚
- Formation
- ideographic — A kneeling person 乚 using their hands 爫 to unravel a knot
- Simplified
- 乱
- Japanese
- 亂 as a kanji
亂 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Tao Te Ching 4 · Analects 15 · Art of War 11 · I Ching 2 · Mencius 18 · Zhuangzi 60 · Great Learning 2 · Doctrine of the Mean 1
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 3
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 18
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 38
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 64
- Analects 1.2
- Analects 7.20
- Analects 8.2
- Analects 8.10
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