爛 (laan6 | lan4) : rotten; worn-out

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爛

laan6

lan4

[1] rotten; decayed; decomposed
[2] worn-out; torn; broken
[3] (cooking) soft; mushy; pappy
[4] messy; disorderly; jumbled
[5] bright; bright-coloured; brilliant
[6] thoroughly; completely; utterly
[7] [粵] cheesy; crummy; lacking style
[8] [粵] addicted to; crave for

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Stroke count: 21

Level: 2

Radical: 火 (#86)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

爛 / 烂

This word has been viewed 1 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 15th Jan 2011 00:54

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爛咗 laan6 zo2 = broken, fallen apart (physically) 粵

打爛咗 daa2 laan6 zo2 = broken (as a result of an impact) 粵

打爛 daa2 laan6 = to break 粵

爛癮 laan6 jan5 = having a strong addiction (e.g., to a hobby) 粵

燦爛 caan3 laan6 can4 lan4 = glittering; bright; magnificent; splendid

腐爛 fu6 laan6 fu3 lan4 = rotten

破爛 po3 laan6 po4 lan4 = ragged

爛牙 laan6 ngaa4 = bad/decayed tooth, cavity

爛賬 laan6 zoeng3 = indiscriminate borrowing; overdrawn/bad account

爛銅爛鐵 laan6 tung4 laan6 tit3 = metal scrap
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Showing all 7 examples containing 爛

嗰隻碟打爛咗粵
That plate is broken.
[打爛咗 implies the breakage is as a result of being dropped or smashed.]

燦爛的未來。國
A bright future.

燦爛嘅未來。粵
A bright future.

唔好搞爛gag 啦! 粵
Stop making crappy jokes.

天真爛漫的孩子們過著無憂無慮的生活
Innocent children, unaffected by the surroundings, live without a worry in the world.

踢咗兩場波﹐爛咗兩個波。粵
We've got two soccer balls burst after two games.
[兩場波 and 兩個波 are both patterned as 'numeral + measure + noun'. However, 場 is a verb measure that quantifies the verb 踢 whereas 個 is a noun measure (or classifier) that modifies the noun 波.]

點解你洗嚫碗都打爛嘢㗎？
Why is it that every time you wash dishes you break something?
[[粵] V-嚫 ... 都... Pattern the means every time someone does something, such and such will happen.]

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國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese.
粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
No icon: This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

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Unicode code for this character: U+721b (off-site link)

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