luàn
confusion, mess
Depicts two hands (爫, 又) organizing tangled threads.
Components
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 亂
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
disorder | ||
confusion | ||
at sixes and sevens | ||
to disturb | ||
to disturb |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[r]ˤo[n]-s | lwanH | luàn | disorder, rebellion |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 61.8613% of movies
719th most common character in movies
765th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+4E82 |
Shuowen | “亂,治也。从乙。乙,治之也。从。” |
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