Chinese Character 爛 Meanings and components.

Form

爛

Meaning

爛 meaning[3] in English

Soft.

Mushy.

Well-Cooked And Soft.

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Main Components

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

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

In cangjie it is written with FANW

How to write 爛

To write爛lan4soft you should write a combination of 火huo3surname Huo , 闌lan2railing arranged in a 吅 shape:

火 + 闌 = 爛

爛 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

爛
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
闌
Pinyin:lan2 Shape:回
Meaning[3]: Railing . Balustrade . Door-Screen . Exhausted . Late
門
Pinyin:men2
Meaning[3]: Surname Men
柬
Pinyin:jian3 Shape:一
Meaning[3]: Abbr. For 柬埔寨[Jian3 Pu3 Zhai4], Cambodia

Notes

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

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

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