làn

flood

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

  Meaning component

shuishuǐ

  

water

is a component form of .

監 sound component

  Sound component

jiānjiàn

  

watch carefully

Evolution

濫 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
濫 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
濫 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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làn

flood, overflow; excessive; overflowing; indiscriminate

Most common words with 濫
Freq.
Word
Meaning

滥用

to misuse

overflowing

泛滥

to be in flood

陈词滥调

cliché

滥杀

to massacre

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 7.3683% of movies

2313th most common character in movies

2282nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Simplified

Unicode

U+6FEB

Shuowen

“濫,氾也。从水,監聲。一曰濡上及下也。《詩》曰:‘沸濫泉。’一曰清也。”


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