烂
làn HSK5

rotten

烂 爛 làn
to rot verbadjective
to rot; to decompose; to become rotten or festering

那些苹果烂了。

nà​xiē píng​guǒ làn le.

Those apples are rotten.

messy noun
messy; chaotic; disorganized
terrible adjective
(colloquial) crappy; bad; of poor quality

你开车技术超烂！

nǐ kāi chē jì​shù chāo làn!

You're a terrible driver!

有些书不仅烂，还危险。

yǒu​xiē shū bù​jǐn làn, hái wēi​xiǎn.

Some books are not just bad, they are dangerous too.

brilliant adjective
(literary) brilliant; bright; glorious
broken particleverb
worn out; broken; tattered; falling apart
mushy noun
cooked until soft; sodden; mushy; (of solids) falling apart after absorbing water
thoroughly particleverb
thoroughly; to a great degree; utterly

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Frequency
Character
Written text
1,754th most common 49.8 per million
Movie subtitles
1,105th most common 84.0 per million appears in 37% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
79.8 per million appears in 27% of films
Written text
32.5 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 5
Traditional
爛
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+70C2

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