烂 (爛) làn

1. làn adjective rotten; spoiled; decayed
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 腐败 (Guoyu '爛' adj 2; Kroll 2015 '爛' 2a; NCCED '爛' 2; Unihan '爛')
2. làn adjective mushy; soft
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 松软 (Guoyu '爛' adj 1; NCCED '爛' 1)
3. làn adjective torn; broken; disintegrated
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '爛' 2; NCCED '爛' 3)
4. làn adjective disorderly; messy
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 紊乱 (Guoyu '爛' adj 4; NCCED '爛' 4)
5. làn adjective bright-colored; bright
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '爛' adj 3; NCCED '爛' 5)
6. làn adverb completely; thoroughly; very
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '爛' adv; NCCED '爛' 6)
7. làn verb to soften by stewing
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '爛' v 2; Kroll 2015 '爛' 1)
8. làn verb to burn through
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '爛' 3)
9. làn adjective not good; below average
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: Of a person; in the sense of 差劲 (Guoyu '爛' adj 5)

Contained in

• 烂尾(爛尾) unfinished; incomplete
• 糜烂(糜爛) dissipated; rotten; decaying
• 陈谷子烂芝麻(陳谷子爛芝麻) stale grain, overcooked sesame; the same boring old gossip
• 烂醉如泥(爛醉如泥) lit. as drunk as mud; completely drunk
• 烂透(爛透) rotten to the core
• 灿烂(燦爛) brilliant; splendid
• 溃烂(潰爛) to fester; to ulcerate
• 烂熟(爛熟) well cooked ; to know thoroughly
• 海枯石烂(海枯石爛) seas dry, stone disintegrates; forever
• 唬烂(唬爛) to bullshit; to fool
• 捣烂(搗爛) to mash; to beat to a pulp
• 烂泥(爛泥) mud; mire
• 烂污货(爛污貨) loose woman; slut
• 软烂(軟爛) (of food etc) soft; pulpy; (of a person) lacking drive; shiftless; lazy
• 燋烂(燋爛) to die ; burnt to a crisp; overcooked
• 灿烂多彩(燦爛多彩) multicolored splendor (of fireworks, bright lights etc)
• 石烂海枯(石爛海枯) seas dry, stone disintegrates; forever
• 糜烂性毒剂(糜爛性毒劑) vesicant
• 烂好人(爛好人) sb who tries to be on good terms with everyone
• 破烂(破爛) ragged ; junk
• 稀巴烂(稀巴爛) broken
• 好记性不如烂笔头(好記性不如爛筆頭) the palest ink is better than the best memory
• 烂熳(爛熳) brightly colored; unaffected
• 霉烂(霉爛) mold; rot
• 滚瓜烂熟(滾瓜爛熟) ripe as a melon that rolls from its vine; to know fluently; to know something inside out
• 废铜烂铁(廢銅爛鐵) scrap metal; a pile of junk
• 稀烂(稀爛) smashed up; broken into pieces; thoroughly mashed; pulpy
• 破铜烂铁(破銅爛鐵) pieces of copper and rusty iron; scrap
• 靡烂(靡爛) rotting; decaying
• 烂片(爛片) dud movie
• 三寸不烂之舌(三寸不爛之舌) to have a silver tongue; to have the gift of the gab
• 天真烂漫(天真爛漫) innocent and unaffected
• 爪烂(爪爛) to claw to pieces
• 朽烂(朽爛) rotten
• 焦头烂额(焦頭爛額) badly burned about the head from trying to assist in a fire; working under hardship
• 烂舌头(爛舌頭) to gossip; to blab; a blab-mouth
• 烂桃花(爛桃花) unhappy love affair
• 腐烂(腐爛) to rot; to decompose
• 死缠烂打(死纏爛打) to pester; to harass
• 绚烂(絢爛) splendid; gorgeous; dazzling
• 烂糊(爛糊) overripe; overcooked
• 烂帐(爛帳) disorderly; chaotic ; an irrecoverable debt
• 撕烂(撕爛) to tear up; to tear to pieces
• 烂醉(爛醉) dead drunk; completely drunk
• 砸烂(砸爛) to smash
• 比烂(比爛) to compare two unsatisfactory things; to argue that others have similar or worse faults (as a response to criticism); whataboutery
• 贪多嚼不烂(貪多嚼不爛) to bite off more than one can chew
• 烂泥扶不上墙(爛泥扶不上牆) useless ; worthless; inept
• 烂摊子(爛攤子) terrible mess; shambles
• 烂漫(爛漫) unfettered and free; unaffected ; brightly colored ; disorderly

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撞烂

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Truncated for common words

• 卷二十四 Scroll 24 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 9
• 卷三十三 Scroll 33 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 7
• 卷四十二 Scroll 42 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 7
• 卷十八 Scroll 18 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 6
• 《司馬相如列傳》 Biography of Sima Xiangru Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 6
• 卷三百十六 列傳第二百〇四 貴州土司 Volume 316 Biographies 204: Guizhou Tribal Headmen History of Ming 明史 — count: 6
• 卷二百二十一下 列傳第一百四十六下 西域下 Volume 221b Biographies 146b: Western Regions 2 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 6
• 卷十七 Scroll 17 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 5
• 卷五十七上 司馬相如傳 Volume 57a: Sima Xiangru Book of Han 漢書 — count: 5
• 卷一百三十九 志第九十二 樂十四 Volume 139 Treatises 92: Music 14 History of Song 宋史 — count: 5

Collocations

• 鱼烂 (魚爛) 魚爛而亡也 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 9
• 烂烂 (爛爛) 磷磷爛爛 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《司馬相如列傳》 Biography of Sima Xiangru — count: 8
• 灼烂 (灼爛) 燔髮灼爛者在上行 — Garden of Stories 說苑, 卷十三 權謀 Chapter 13: Tactics — count: 7
• 粲烂 (粲爛) 皓齒粲爛 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《司馬相如列傳》 Biography of Sima Xiangru — count: 7
• 照烂 (照爛) 照爛龍鱗 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《司馬相如列傳》 Biography of Sima Xiangru — count: 6
• 焦烂 (焦爛) 必至焦爛 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷二十六 志第十六 食貨 Volume 26 Treatises 16: Finance and Economics — count: 5
• 焕烂 (煥爛) 赬素煥爛 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷五十五 列傳第二十五 夏侯湛 潘岳 張載 Volume 55 Biographies 25: Xiahou Zhan; Pan Yue; Zhang Zai — count: 4
• 光烂 (光爛) 光爛照天 — Book of Song 宋書, 卷三十二 志第二十二 五行三 Volume 32 Treatises 22: Five Elements 3 — count: 4
• 脱烂 (脫爛) 之脫爛 — Book of Wei 魏書, 卷106上 地形志二上 Volume 106a Treatise 2: Terrain 1 — count: 3
• 烂如火 (爛如火) 光爛如火 — Book of Liang 梁書, 卷三 本紀第三 武帝下 Volume 3: Emperor Wu 3 — count: 3