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See also: 烂
爛 U+721B, 爛
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-721B
← 爚
[U+721A] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 爜 →
[U+721C]
爛 U+F91E, 爛
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F91E
← 欄
[U+F91D] 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 蘭 →
[U+F91F]

Translingual

Han character

爛 (Kangxi radical 86, 火+17, 21 strokes, cangjie input 火日弓田 (FANW), four-corner 97820, composition ⿰火闌)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 687, character 25
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19604
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1099, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2249, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+721B

Chinese

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Glyph origin

More information Historical forms of the character 爛, Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) ...
Characters in the same phonetic series (柬) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
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Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡ·raːns): semantic 火 (“fire”) + phonetic 闌 (OC *ɡ·raːn).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • nōa - vernacular;
  • lān - literary.
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Definitions

爛

  1. (of fruits, etc.) rotten; spoiled; decayed
    爛蘋果／烂苹果  ―  làn píngguǒ  ―  rotten apple
  2. well-cooked; soft; mushy
    佢鍾意啲薯仔煮得好爛。 [Cantonese, trad.]
    佢钟意啲薯仔煮得好烂。 [Cantonese, simp.]
    keoi5 zung1 ji3 di1 syu4 zai2 zyu2 dak1 hou2 laan6. [Jyutping]
    He likes his potatoes cooked very mushy.
  3. broken; fragmented; shattered
    佢整爛其他人啲嘢都唔知錯。 [Cantonese, trad.]
    佢整烂其他人啲嘢都唔知错。 [Cantonese, simp.]
    keoi5 zing2 laan6 kei4 taa1 jan4 di1 je5 dou1 m4 zi1 co3. [Jyutping]
    He didn't apologize even though he broke someone else's things.
  4. low-quality; poor; lousy
    爛gag／烂gag [Cantonese]  ―  laan6 gag [Jyutping]  ―  bad joke
    我的英文很爛。／我的英文很烂。  ―  Wǒ de yīngwén hěn làn.  ―  My English is awful.
  5. to rot; to decay; to decompose; to spoil
  6. completely; thoroughly
  7. bright; brilliant; gorgeous; magnificent
  8. (Cantonese) to be addicted to
    Synonym: 嗜 (shì)
    爛瞓／烂𰥛 [Cantonese]  ―  laan6 fan3 [Jyutping]  ―  to habitually sleep too much; to be a lover of sleep
    爛賭／烂赌 [Cantonese]  ―  laan6 dou2 [Jyutping]  ―  fond of gambling
  9. (Cantonese) extremely
    抵到爛／抵到烂 [Cantonese]  ―  dai2 dou3 laan6 [Jyutping]  ―  to be extremely cost-effective; to be a great bargain
  10. used in 爛漫／烂漫 (lànmàn)

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 爛 (“rotten; decayed”) [map]
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Compounds

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Japanese

Kanji

爛

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. be sore
  2. inflamed
  3. bleary
  4. fester

Readings

  • Go-on: らん (ran)
  • Kan-on: らん (ran)
  • Kun: ただれる (tadareru, 爛れる)

Korean

Hanja

爛 • (ran>nan) (hangeul 란>난, revised ran>nan, McCune–Reischauer ran>nan, Yale lan>nan)

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Vietnamese

Han character

爛: Hán Nôm readings: lạn, láng, rạn

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