Chinese symbol for “rotting”
靡烂
mí làn
Traditional: 靡爛
rotting; decaying
The closest CC-CEDICT match for rotting is 靡烂 (mí làn), defined as: rotting; decaying.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 靡烂.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 风靡 (風靡) | fēng mǐ | fashionable; popular |
| 萎靡 | wěi mǐ | listless; dispirited; lacking in vigor; languishing |
| 所向披靡 | suǒ xiàng pī mǐ | (idiom) to sweep everything before one; to be invincible |
| 奢靡 | shē mí | extravagant |
| 风靡一时 (風靡一時) | fēng mǐ yī shí | fashionable for a while (idiom); all the rage |
| 萎靡不振 | wěi mǐ bù zhèn | dispirited and listless (idiom); downcast |
| 灿烂 (燦爛) | càn làn | to glitter; brilliant |
| 腐烂 (腐爛) | fǔ làn | to rot; to putrefy |
See also: Japanese symbol for “rotting”.
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.