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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
làn - soft; mushy
- well-cooked and soft
- to rot; to decompose
- rotten
- worn out
- chaotic; messy
- utterly; thoroughly
- crappy; bad

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
5 5 1,108 3,666 1,558

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Pictophonetic

Phonetic:

Semantic:

Hint:

Fire

Other Words Containing

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
5 5 1,108 3,666 1,558
腐烂 6 7 5,987 17,632 15,753
烂摊子 - - 6,562 43,844 32,920
破烂 - - 6,792 19,630 17,060
灿烂 6 8 8,081 6,256 3,387
砸烂 - - 16,324 37,268 34,752
焦头烂额 - - 16,863 32,709 27,615
烂泥 - - 19,054 36,349 27,983
溃烂 - - 27,827 33,191 26,721
稀烂 - - 27,876 48,578 28,898
绚烂 - - 30,546 19,254 10,022
烂熟 - - 30,854 45,845 29,333
糜烂 - - 32,452 21,440 22,179
海枯石烂 - - 41,411 39,198 16,228
天真烂漫 - - 49,216 49,305 32,402
烂漫 - - 70,841 36,141 18,173
朽烂 - - 71,265 - -