Chinese Character 濫 Meanings and components.

Form

濫

Meaning

濫 meaning[3] in English

Overflowing.

Excessive.

Indiscriminate.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 濫 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are 'water' radical in … (氵) , and to supervise (監)

Its radical[1] is: 水 (shui3) which means: Surname Shui, .水shui3surname Shui

In cangjie it is written with ESIT

How to write 濫

To write濫lan4overflowing you should write a combination of 氵shui5'water' radical … , 監jian1to supervise arranged in a 吅 shape:

氵 + 監 = 濫

濫 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 濫 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of 濫, looks as follow:

濫
Pinyin:lan4 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Overflowing . Excessive . Indiscriminate
氵
Pinyin:shui5
Meaning[3]: 'Water' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 85), Occurring In 没, 法, 流 Etc . See Also 三點水|三点水[San1 Dian3 Shui3]
監
Pinyin:jian1 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: To Supervise . To Inspect . Jail . Prison
臣
Pinyin:chen2
Meaning[3]: Surname Chen
亽
Pinyin:ji2 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Archaic Variant Of 亼[Ji2]
人
Pinyin:ren2
Meaning[3]: Man . Person . People . Cl:個|个[Ge4],位[Wei4]
丶
Pinyin:zhu3
Meaning[3]: 'Dot' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 3) . See Also 點|点[Dian3]
*
Pinyin:*
皿
Pinyin:min3
Meaning[3]: Dish . Vessel . Shallow Container . Rad. No. 108

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: 部bùsection 首shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: 汉hànChinese 字zìCharacter

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