濫
làn

flood

滥 (濫) làn
indiscriminate verb
done without careful selection, restraint, or judgment

他总是滥交朋友，结果给自己惹了不少麻烦。

tā zǒng​shì làn jiāo péng​you, jié​guǒ gěi zì​jǐ rě le bù​shǎo má​fan.

He is always making friends indiscriminately, which has caused him a lot of trouble.

excessive expression
exceeding what is necessary or desirable; redundant

选拔人才要坚持高标准，宁缺毋滥。

xuǎn​bá rén​cái yào jiān​chí gāo biāo​zhǔn, nìng​quē​wú​làn.

In selecting talent, we must maintain high standards; it is better to leave a position vacant than to fill it with someone unqualified.

overflowing verb
to flow over boundaries or inundate

大水泛滥成灾。

dà​shuǐ fàn​làn chéng zāi.

The floods have caused widespread disaster.

Cross-References

Has variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,282nd most common 25.7 per million
Movie subtitles
2,313th most common 11.7 per million appears in 7% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
4.11 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
6.45 per million

Details
Simplified
滥
Strokes
17
Unicode
U+6FEB

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)