This apple is rotten.
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烂
Traditional: 爛
làn
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làn · laan6 (Jyutping)
- soft; mushy
- well-cooked and soft
- to rot; to decompose
- rotten
- worn out
- chaotic; messy
- utterly; thoroughly
- crappy; bad
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Unihan 17.0.0 · Unicode License V3. Make Me a Hanzi · LGPL 3+. Interactive stroke order is available in the study tools.
Example sentences
These apples are rotten.
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