soft; mushy / well-cooked and soft / to rot; to decompose / rotten / worn out / chaotic; messy / utterly; thoroughly / crappy; bad
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烂 character breakdown

fire / urgent / ammunition / fiery or flaming / internal heat (Chinese medicine) / hot (popular) / classifier for military units (old) / Kangxi radical 86
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surname Lan / abbr. for Lanzhou 蘭州|兰州[Lan2 zhou1], Gansu
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orchid (蘭花|兰花 Cymbidium goeringii) / fragrant thoroughwort (蘭草|兰草 Eupatorium fortunei) / lily magnolia (木蘭|木兰)
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Characters with 烂 as component

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Words with 烂

to glitter / brilliant / splendid
to fester; to ulcerate
to fester / to ulcerate
lit. when the seas run dry and the stones go soft (idiom) / fig. forever / until the end of time
to mash / to beat to a pulp
to tear up / to tear to pieces
to have a silver tongue / to have the gift of the gab
to destroy by smashing / smashed up
(neologism c. 2014) (slang) to stop striving (esp. when one knows one cannot succeed); to let it all go to hell; (sports) to tank
(coll.) to pester / to harass
to compare two unsatisfactory things / to argue that others have similar or worse faults (as a response to criticism) / whataboutery
lit. ripe as a melon that rolls from its vine (idiom); fig. to know fluently / to know sth inside out / to know sth by heart
variant of 下三濫|下三滥[xia4 san1 lan4]
lit. rafters that jut out rot first (idiom) / fig. anyone who makes himself conspicuous will be targeted for attack
(slang) (Tw) to bullshit / to fool
see 賭爛|赌烂[du3 lan4]

Sentences with 烂

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