IDENTITY
乱luànmessy; chaotic
HSK 3Top 400
CORE MEANING
messy; chaotic
- Part of speech
- adjective
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.messy; chaoticHSK3
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 乚hook radical (yǐ)
- strokes
- 7
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰舌乚
- gives the sound luàn (historical)
USAGE
Common words
乱跑luànpǎoto run around wildly
混乱hùnluànchaotic
Graded examples
书桌上很乱。Shūzhuō shang hěn luàn.HSK4
The desk is very messy.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 刮
LEARNING
Memory aid
A tongue (舌) in a tangle — chaos. (From 亂, tangled silk.)
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #400
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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