Chinese symbol for “chaotic”
乱七八糟
luàn qī bā zāo
Traditional: 亂七八糟
(idiom) chaotic; in disorder; muddled
The closest CC-CEDICT match for chaotic is 乱七八糟 (luàn qī bā zāo), defined as: (idiom) chaotic; in disorder; muddled.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “chaotic”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 混乱 (混亂) | hùn luàn | confused; chaotic; disorderly |
| 乱糟糟 (亂糟糟) | luàn zāo zāo | chaotic; topsy turvy |
| 烂 (爛) | làn | soft; mushy; well-cooked and soft |
| 横 (橫) | héng | horizontal; across |
| 杂乱 (雜亂) | zá luàn | in a mess; in a jumble |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 乱七八糟.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 混乱 (混亂) | hùn luàn | confused; chaotic; disorderly |
| 叛乱 (叛亂) | pàn luàn | armed rebellion |
| 动乱 (動亂) | dòng luàn | turmoil; upheaval |
| 骚乱 (騷亂) | sāo luàn | disturbance; riot; to create a disturbance |
| 扰乱 (擾亂) | rǎo luàn | to disturb; to perturb |
| 战乱 (戰亂) | zhàn luàn | chaos of war |
| 十七 | shí qī | seventeen; 17 |
| 七十 | qī shí | seventy; 70 |
| 十八 | shí bā | eighteen; 18 |
| 糟糕 | zāo gāo | too bad; how terrible |
See also: Japanese symbol for “chaotic”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.