HSK 6 · Function Words

胡乱 húluàn “carelessly” in Chinese

Traditional 胡亂

What 胡乱 means

  1. carelessly
  2. at random
  3. recklessly
  4. careless
  5. reckless
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • casually
  • absent-mindedly
  • at will

How to say 胡乱

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale胡hú2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale乱luàn4th tone, falling

胡乱 in a sentence

  1. 他胡乱把书本放在架上。

    Tā húluàn bǎ shūběn fàng zài jià shàng.

    He put the books on the shelf any old way.

    Sentence #346866 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 胡乱 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 胡 (hú) with each of its parts in a different colour
胡húnon-Han people, esp. from central Asia
  • 古old · gǔSound part
  • ⺼meat form of 肉 · ròuMeaning part

⺼ hints at the meaning (meat); 古 (gǔ) hints at the sound. Compare it with hú.

The character 乱 (luàn) with each of its parts in a different colour
乱luànin confusion or disorder
  • 舌tongue · shé
  • 乚second (cyclical) form of 乙 · yǐ

How to write 胡乱

胡 9 strokes · 乱 7 strokes

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胡乱 (húluàn) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 胡乱 (húluàn). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 胡乱

Words with 胡

胡同hútòng · lane胡说húshuō · to talk nonsense胡须húxū · beard

Words with 乱

乱luàn · in confusion or disorder捣乱dǎoluàn · to make trouble扰乱rǎoluàn · to disturb混乱hùnluàn · chaos

More words: Function Words & Grammar

嗨hāi · hi毫无háowú · not at all呵hē · to breathe out嘿hēi · hey (to attract attention)将近jiāngjìn · nearly鉴于jiànyú · in view of即便jíbiàn · even if皆jiē · all

FAQs

胡乱 (húluàn) means “carelessly” or “at random”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it húluàn: hú with a 2nd tone, then luàn with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 胡乱 is written 胡亂. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type huluan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 胡乱 from the suggestions. Typing huluan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
胡乱 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.