làn
flood
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 監 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 濫
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 | 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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