Chinese Character 烂 Meanings and components.

Form

烂

Meaning

烂 meaning[3] in English

Soft.

Mushy.

Well-Cooked And Soft.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 烂 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are surname Huo (火) , and surname Lan (兰)

Its radical[1] is: 火 (huo3) which means: Surname Huo, .火huo3surname Huo

In cangjie it is written with FTMM

How to write 烂

To write烂lan4soft you should write a combination of 火huo3surname Huo , 兰lan2surname Lan arranged in a 吅 shape:

火 + 兰 = 烂

烂 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

烂
Pinyin:lan4 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Soft . Mushy . Well-Cooked And Soft . To Rot . To Decompose . Rotten . Worn Out . Chaotic . Messy . Utterly . Thoroughly . Crappy . Bad
火
Pinyin:huo3
Meaning[3]: Surname Huo
兰
Pinyin:lan2 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Surname Lan . Abbr. For Lanzhou 蘭州|兰州[Lan2 Zhou1], Gansu
丷
Pinyin:ba1
Meaning[3]: 'Eight' Component In Chinese Characters . Archaic Variant Of 八[Ba1]
三
Pinyin:san1 Shape:回
Meaning[3]: Surname San
二
Pinyin:er4
Meaning[3]: Two . 2 . (Beijing Dialect) Stupid
一
Pinyin:yi1
Meaning[3]: One . 1 . Single . A (Article) . As Soon As . Entire . Whole . All . Throughout . 'One' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 1) . Also Pr. [Yao1] For Greater Clarity When Spelling Out Numbers Digit By Digit

Notes

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

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

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