luàn
adjective HSK 3 #928

Meanings

  1. 1 messy
  2. 2 disorderly
  3. 3 chaotic

Examples

Nǐ de fángjiān tài luàn le.
Your room is too messy.
Búyào luàn diū lājī.
Don't throw trash everywhere.
Wǒ de xīnlǐ hěn luàn.
My mind is in a mess.

Tips

grammar
before a verb means 'recklessly/randomly': (say nonsense), (run around), (spend money carelessly).

Components

radical
second heavenly stem (radical form)
Right indexing radical — a single curved hook, the variant form of . In the traditional it was a hand reaching in to sort the tangle; the simplification collapsed the hand into this hook. Today it just marks the entry under Kangxi #5 () without contributing a clear meaning.
semantic
shé
tongue (here graphic)
Left — graphic residue from the simplification of . The traditional form had a tangled-thread component on the left depicting hands trying to unravel knotted silk; the 1956 reform replaced it with the visually similar (tongue). Treat as a graphic substitute, not a true tongue-meaning.

Stroke Order

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