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CHARACTER COMPOSITION
RADICAL
水 water
SIMILAR CHARACTERS
WRITE STROKE BY STROKE
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Simplified stroke orders are based on the 'Standard of National Commonly-used Mandarin Chinese Characters (现代汉语通用字笔顺规范)', issued by the China National Language and Character Working Committee (国家语言文字工作委员会) on April 7th 1997. Traditional stroke orders are based on information issued by the Taiwan Ministry of Education.
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泛滥
泛濫
fàn làn
v. to flood, to inundate; (of unhealthy tendencies) to spread unchecked
他在位时曾经滥用自己的职权。
他在位時曾經濫用自己的職權。
tā zài wèi shí céng jīng làn yòng zì jǐ de zhí quán .
phr. He used to abuse his power while in office.
她总是滥花钱。
她總是濫花錢。
tā zǒng shì làn huā qián
phr. She always spends money like water.
粗制滥造
粗製濫造
cū zhì làn zào
phr. manufacture in a rough and slipshod way
陈词滥调
陳詞濫調
chén cí làn diào
idiom. hackneyed and stereotyped words, clichés
宁缺毋滥
寧缺毋濫
nìng quē wú làn
idiom. would rather go without than make do with sth shoddy or substandard, better to accept too few than to make up a number by lowering the standard
滥竽充数
濫竽充數
làn yú chōng shù
idiom. pretend to play the Yu (a wind instrument) in order to make up the number for an orchestra-- to be included in a group just to fill in a vacancy