懶

See also: 懒

懶 U+61F6, 懶 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-61F6 ← 懵 [U+61F5] CJK Unified Ideographs 懷 → [U+61F7]

懶 U+F90D, 懶 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F90D ← 奈 [U+F90C] CJK Compatibility Ideographs 癩 → [U+F90E]

懶 U+2F8B1, 懶 CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-2F8B1 ← 懲 [U+2F8B0] CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement 成 → [U+2F8B2]

Translingual

Han character

懶 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+16, 19 strokes, cangjie input 心木中金 (PDLC), four-corner 9708₆, composition ⿰忄賴)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 408, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11455
• Dae Jaweon: page 749, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2368, character 13
• Unihan data for U+61F6

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Chinese

trad.		懶
simp.		懒
alternative forms		嬾／⿰女赖 㦨／⿰忄兰

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (賴) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
賴	*raːds
籟	*raːds
癩	*raːds, *raːd
瀨	*raːds
藾	*raːds
攋	*raːds, *reːdʔ, *raːd
懶	*raːnʔ
嬾	*raːnʔ
獺	*r̥ʰaːd, *hr'aːd

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lǎn (lan³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): laan⁵
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): lân
• Northern Min (KCR): lǎng
• Eastern Min (BUC): lāng
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): lán / nōa

  (Teochew, Peng'im): lang⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lǎn
    • Wade–Giles: lan³
    • Yale: lǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: laan
    • Palladius: лань (lanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /län²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: laan⁵
    • Yale: láahn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: laan⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: lan⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /laːn¹³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: lân
    • Hakka Romanization System: lan´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: lan¹
    • Sinological IPA: /lan²⁴/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: lǎng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /laŋ²¹/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: lāng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /l̃aŋ³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lán / nōa
    • Tâi-lô: lán / nuā
    • Phofsit Daibuun: larn, noa
    • IPA (Xiamen): /lan⁵³/, /nuã²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /lan⁵⁵⁴/, /nuã⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /lan⁵³/, /nuã²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /lan⁵³/, /nuã³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /lan⁴¹/, /nuã³³/

Note:

• lán - literary;
• nōa - vernacular.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: lang⁶
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: lăng
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /laŋ³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: lanX

Rime
Character	懶
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	寒 (61)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	落旱切
Baxter	lanX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/lɑnX/
Pan Wuyun	/lɑnX/
Shao Rongfen	/lɑnX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/lanX/
Li Rong	/lɑnX/
Wang Li	/lɑnX/
Bernard Karlgren	/lɑnX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lǎn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	laan5

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[N-kə.]rˤanʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*raːnʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	懶
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	lǎn
Middle Chinese	‹ lanX ›
Old Chinese	/*[N-kə.]rˁanʔ/
English	lazy
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	懶
Reading #	1/1
No.	7638
Phonetic component	賴
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	嬾
Old Chinese	/*raːnʔ/
Notes	俗嬾字集韻又從柬聲

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 懶

1. lazy; indolent; slothful
2. sluggish; drowsy

Usage notes

• To translate the English construction "too lazy to X" (i.e., someone is feeling "too lazy" to do something), use 懶得／懒得 (lǎnde):

  夏天的我懶得化妝 [MSC, trad.]
  夏天的我懒得化妆 [MSC, simp.]

  From: (deprecated template usage) 鄭怡, 離家出走

  xiàtiān de wǒ lǎndé huàzhuāng [Pinyin]

  I'm too lazy in the summer to put on makeup

Synonyms

• (lazy):

(deprecated template usage)

• 怠惰 (dàiduò)
• 慵懶／慵懒 (yōnglǎn) (literary)
• 懈怠 (xièdài)
• 懶惰／懒惰 (lǎnduò)
• 懶散／懒散 (lǎnsǎn)
• 散漫
• 渙散／涣散 (huànsàn)
• 疏懶／疏懒 (shūlǎn)
• 疲倦 (píjuàn)
• 疲沓
• 荏𤺔／荏𪽴 (Xiamen Hokkien)
• 鬆懈／松懈 (sōngxiè)
• 鬆散／松散 (sōngsǎn)

 

Dialectal synonyms of 懶惰 (“lazy”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		懶, 惰, 懈, 怠
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		懶惰
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	懶
	Taiwan	懶
	Singapore	懶, 懶惰
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	懶
Central Plains Mandarin	Xi'an	懶
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	懶
	Wuhan	懶
Jianghuai Mandarin	Yangzhou	懶
	Hefei	懶
Cantonese	Guangzhou	懶, 蛇
	Hong Kong	懶, 蛇
	Taishan	懶
	Yangjiang	懶
	Singapore (Guangfu)	懶
Gan	Nanchang	懶
Hakka	Meixian	懶, 懶屍
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	懶屍
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	懶屍
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	懶屍
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	懶屍
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	懶屍
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	懶屍
Jin	Taiyuan	懶
Northern Min	Jian'ou	惰
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	懶, 懶屍, 懶漢, 二婿
Southern Min	Xiamen	貧惰, 臭惰, 懶屍, 荏懶, 懶賤, 漚肉
	Quanzhou	貧惰, 臭惰, 荏懶, 臭肉, 漚肉
	Zhangzhou	貧惰, 臭惰, 懶屍, 荏懶, 想死, 懶賤, 漚肉, 屎礐蟲
	Taipei	荏懶, 貧惰, 懶屍
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	荏懶, 貧惰, 懶屍
	Kaohsiung	荏懶, 貧惰, 懶屍
	Yilan	荏懶, 貧惰, 懶屍
	Changhua (Lukang)	貧惰
	Taichung	貧惰
	Tainan	荏懶, 貧惰, 懶屍
	Hsinchu	貧惰
	Kinmen	貧惰
	Penghu (Magong)	貧惰
	Penang (Hokkien)	荏懶, 貧惰
	Singapore (Hokkien)	荏懶, 貧惰
	Manila (Hokkien)	貧惰, 荏懶, 臭惰, 臭骨
	Chaozhou	惰
	Shantou	惰
	Jieyang	惰
	Singapore (Teochew)	惰
	Leizhou	惰
	Haikou	惰
Wu	Shanghai	懶
	Suzhou	懶, 懶怕
	Wenzhou	懶
Xiang	Changsha	懶
	Shuangfeng	懶

Compounds

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

懶

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. languid
2. be lazy
3. be negligent

Readings

• On (unclassified): らん (ran); らい (rai)
• Kun: おこたる (okotaru); ものうい (monōi)

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Korean

Hanja

懶 (eum 라 (ra), word-initial (South Korea) 나 (na))

懶 (eum 란 (ran), word-initial (South Korea) 난 (nan))

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Vietnamese

Han character

懶: Hán Nôm readings: lại, lãn, lớn, lười

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