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濫

濫 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. あふれる。
  2. みだりに。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

形声。「水」+音符「監」。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

excessive, overflow, spread out

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • ランJHS
Kun (native)
  • みだ(りに)
  • みだ(りがましい)
Other languages
  • 拼音lan4
  • 한글ram
  • 한글ham
  • Hán-ViệtLạm
  • Hán-ViệtLãm
  • Hán-ViệtCãm

Labels show the school stage at which each Jōyō reading is taught.

Basics

Strokes
18 strokes
Radical
水(みず)
JIS level
Level 1
JLPT (old scale)
Level 1
Unicode
U+6FEB

Components

Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰氵監

Words using this kanji

  • 濫造らんぞう品質を問わずむやみに多くのものなどを造ること。overproduction, careless manufacture, churning out (substandard goods)
  • 濫觴らんしょう事象、物事の発端、起源、始まり。source, beginning, origin
  • 濫訴らんそexcessive or unreasonable legal action, vexatious litigation
  • 濫りがわしいみだりがわしい淫らである。如何わしい。morally corrupt, slovenly, obscene
  • 濫りがましいみだりがましいmorally corrupt

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(12 results)

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Lookup codes

SKIP
1-3-15
Four Corner
3811.7
Spahn–Hadamitzky
3a15.3
Heisig
1563
Nelson
2724