làn
flood
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 监 represents the sound. Simplified form of 濫.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernMost common words with 滥
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to misuse | ||
overflowing | ||
to be in flood | ||
cliché | ||
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 | 13 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+6EE5 |
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