漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
濫: excessive, overflow
Also: spread out
JLPT N118 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
氵 carries the meaning · 監 gives the sound
18 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
ランran · on'yomi · in compounds
- 氾濫はんらんoverflowing; flood; inundation
- 濫伐らんばつreckless deforestation
- 濫発らんぱつrandom firing; reckless firing
Also read みだりに, みだりがましい, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Imagine three raindrops falling—that's sanzui! Whenever you see these three dots on the left side of a kanji, think of water, liquids, or anything that flows.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
監
Also built on oversee (監)
The 監 family reads カン (kan); 濫 is read ラン.
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side濫 excessive · 氵
vs藍 indigo · 艹In ChineseSimplified 滥 · traditional, as in Japanese · làn
Japan keeps the traditional form 濫; mainland China simplifies it to 滥.
- Simplified
- 滥 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 濫 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin làn most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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