HSK 4 · Adjectives

乱 luàn “in confusion or disorder” in Chinese

Traditional 亂

What 乱 means

  1. in confusion or disorder
  2. in a confused state of mind
  3. disorder
  4. upheaval
  5. riot

How to say 乱

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale乱luàn4th tone, falling

乱 in a sentence

  1. 我弟弟的房间总是很乱。

    Wǒ dìdi de fángjiān zǒngshì hěn luàn.

    My younger brother’s room is always messy.

    Sentence #405132 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 别把东西乱放。

    Bié bǎ dōngxi luàn fàng.

    Don’t leave your things lying around.

    Sentence #9400971 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 如果你弄乱了，你来打扫。

    Rúguǒ nǐ nòngluàn le, nǐ lái dǎsǎo.

    If you make a mess, you clean it up.

    Sentence #805610 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 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 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 乱

乱 7 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

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

Words related to 乱

Words with 乱

捣乱dǎoluàn · to make trouble扰乱rǎoluàn · to disturb混乱hùnluàn · chaos胡乱húluàn · carelessly

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FAQs

乱 (luàn) means “in confusion or disorder” or “in a confused state of mind”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it luàn: 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, 乱 is written 亂. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type luan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 乱 from the suggestions. Typing luan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
乱 is an HSK 4 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.