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laanˍ₆爛
简 烂
Pinyin: lan4
Translations
nouncheesy; crummy; lacking style
nounbright; bright-coloured; brilliant
noun(cooking) soft; mushy; pappy
nounaddicted to; crave for
nounmessy; disorderly; jumbled
nounthoroughly; completely; utterly
nounworn-out; torn; broken
nounrotten; decayed; decomposed
noun(adjective) 1. addicted to; (slang) drunk;
seiˊ²死cungˉ¹充laanˍ₆爛cungˉ¹充
简 死充烂充
Pinyin: si3 chong1 lan4 chong1
Translations
nounto bluff; act deceptively:
noun死充
muiˎ₄霉muiˎ₄霉laanˍ₆爛laanˍ₆爛
简 霉霉烂烂
Pinyin: mei2 mei2 lan4 lan4
Translations
nounworn out, rotten
laanˍ₆爛jungˎ₄蓉jungˎ₄蓉
简 烂蓉蓉
Pinyin: lan4 rong2 rong2
Translations
nounfoul
nountattered or ragged
hyun˗₃絢laanˍ₆爛
简 绚烂
Pinyin: xuan4 lan4
Translations
nounsplendid; gorgeous
dapˍ₆𢱕laanˍ₆爛
简 𢱕烂
Pinyin: 𢱕5 lan4
Translations
nounto smash into pieces
nounto smash to pieces [colloquial]
dingˊ²頂laanˍ₆爛siˏ₅市
简 顶烂市
Pinyin: ding3 lan4 shi4
Translations
nounto drive down the market; to spoil everyone's business by offering very low prices; to ruin the market with cut-throat competition
laanˍ₆爛caaˎ₄茶zaaˉ¹渣
简 烂茶渣
Pinyin: lan4 cha2 zha1
Translations
nounwomen over thirty (or forty in some idioms), see: 男人四十一枝花,女人四十爛茶渣
noun(noun) things that are no use; no value or in bad conditions. Usually, this term implies to women over thirty
mouˏ₅冇cyunˉ¹穿mouˏ₅冇laanˍ₆爛
简 冇穿冇烂
Pinyin: mao3 chuan1 mao3 lan4
Translations
noun(Lit. no hole, nothing broken) [Var.] 無穿無爛
nouneverything is okay; still in good condition
nounstill in one piece; everything is OK
laanˍ₆爛tungˎ₄銅laanˍ₆爛tit˗₃鐵
简 烂铜烂铁
Pinyin: lan4 tong2 lan4 tie3
Translations
nounmetal scrap
noun(noun) scrap metals
pek˗₃劈laanˍ₆爛
简 劈烂
Pinyin: pi1 lan4
Translations
nounto split; to rend
daaˊ²打laanˍ₆爛zoˊ²咗
简 打烂咗
Pinyin: da3 lan4 zuo5
Translations
nouneg: dropped, smashed etc
nounbroken (as a result of an impact)
nounto have shattered something [colloquial]
caan˗₃燦laanˍ₆爛
简 灿烂
Pinyin: can4 lan4
Translations
nounglittering; bright; magnificent; splendid
faat˗₃發laanˍ₆爛zaaˊ²渣
简 发烂渣
Pinyin: fa1 lan4 zha1
Translations
nounthrow a tantrum; fly off the handle; kick up a row; go pissy
nounto throw a tantrum
laanˍ₆爛sou˗₃數
简 烂数
Pinyin: lan4 shu4
Translations
nounbad debts
nounbad debt (spoken)
jyunˉ¹葾bangˉ¹崩laanˍ₆爛cau˗₃臭
简 葾崩烂臭
Pinyin: yuan1 beng1 lan4 chou4
Translations
nounextremely stinky
laanˍ₆爛naiˎ₄泥
简 烂泥
Pinyin: lan4 ni2
Translations
nounmud, slime, slush, ooze | [粵]: 爛湴, 湴, 泥湴
au˗₃漚laanˍ₆爛
简 沤烂
Pinyin: ou4 lan4
Translations
nounlet sth. sit around until it gets mouldy,stale,mildewy or musty and finally goes to ruin
mouˎ₄無cyunˉ¹穿mouˎ₄無laanˍ₆爛
简 无穿无烂
Pinyin: wu2 chuan1 wu2 lan4
Translations
nounstill in good condition
daaˊ²打laanˍ₆爛saaˉ¹砂punˎ₄盆manˍ₆問dou˗₃到dukˉ¹篤
简 打烂砂盆问到笃
Pinyin: da3 lan4 sha1 pen2 wen4 dao4 du3
Translations
nounwhen the clay pot breaks, the cracks go from the top to the bottom
nounseek after truth; get to the very bottom of the matter; keep asking until one gets the answers; pursue a question stubbornly
noun打破砂鍋問到底
nounto find things out in a thorough way by asking every detail
cinˉ¹千gaanˊ²揀maanˍ₆萬gaanˊ²揀,,gaan2揀zoekˍ₆着go˗₃個laanˍ₆爛dangˉ¹燈zaanˊ²盞
简 千拣万拣,拣着个烂灯盏
Pinyin: qian1 jian3 wan4 jian3 , jian3 zhe5 ge4 lan4 deng1 zhan3
Translations
nounto make a bad choice out of a large number of options (esp with a wife)
nounafter rounds of selection, one end up with the worst choice out of all
laanˍ₆爛syunˎ₄船caak˗₃拆maaiˎ₄埋douˉ¹都jauˏ₅有saamˉ¹三ganˉ¹斤dengˉ¹釘
简 烂船拆埋都有三斤钉
Pinyin: lan4 chuan2 chai1 mai2 dou1 you3 san1 jin1 ding1
Translations
nouna rich and influential man at his lowest is still better off than the poor (lit., "a broken ship still has three catties worth of nails")
noun'the worst of the rich is still better than that of the poor'
laanˍ₆爛baau˗₃爆
简 烂爆
Pinyin: lan4 bao4
Translations
nounbad; lousy; crappy; crummy; bad quality; to suck
laanˍ₆爛gwaiˊ²鬼
简 烂鬼
Pinyin: lan4 gui3
Translations
nounuseless, cheap (lit., "rotten ghost")
nouna bad guy; a hoodlum
nounbroken; worthless; a hoodlum; a thug
daaˊ²打laanˍ₆爛saaˉ¹沙punˎ₄盤manˍ₆問dou˗₃到dukˉ¹篤
简 打烂沙盘问到笃
Pinyin: da3 lan4 sha1 pan2 wen4 dao4 du3
Translations
nounto investigate and find out everything; to keep asking many many questions; to ask many questions to try to get to the bottom of something