overflowing / excessive / indiscriminate

= + : Sir Lancelot (l) wants to stock up on water, and he plans to store it in the anthill's bathroom (an4). He keeps on pouring water bottles (氵) in a cage (监), but the cage just overflows (滥). As the water flows out of the cage Lancelot gets even more enraged and pours more and more water.

滥 character breakdown

"water" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 85), occurring in 沒|没[mei2], 法[fa3], 流[liu2] etc / see also 三點水|三点水[san1 dian3 shui3]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a bottle of water. Sheldon Shrimp (shu) enjoys a bottle of water (氵) in the Eiffel Tower's living room (ei3). The got the water by scratching (㇀) a blossom (⺀) and catching the leaking dew in a bottle.
to supervise / to inspect / jail / prison

= + + : Joan of Arc (ji) has been caught by the English and in her prison (监), a cage (监) in front of the anthill (an1), She awaits her trial. She has not given up, though: as a robot hands her a bowl of rice (皿), She quickly pulls out a kitchen knife (刂) and stabs the robot's (大) arm. The robot doesn't even notice though.
supervisor

Characters with 滥 as component

滥 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 滥

lit. to flood (idiom) / fig. rampant / in plague proportions
clichéd / tacky
same as 寧缺毋濫|宁缺毋滥[ning4 que1 wu2 lan4]
better to have nothing (than substandard choice) (idiom); would prefer to go without than accept shoddy option
excessive / exorbitant / excessively
to fall into bad company / to make acquaintances indiscriminately
indiscriminate punishment
platitude / pointless talk
sb who tries to be on good terms with everyone
fickle in love / sentimentality
abuse of authority
willfully slaughter the innocent (idiom)
arbitrary / indiscriminate
wanton destruction of forested lands
indiscriminately included in company (without any qualification) / see 濫竽充數|滥竽充数[lan4 yu2 chong1 shu4]
scurrilous / to scold indiscriminately
lit. floating wine goblets on a stream / the origin (of some phenomenon)
riffraff / scum / lowlife / despicable / inferior

Sentences with 滥

滥 currently does not appear in any sentence.