爛漫

See also: 烂漫

Chinese

		rotten; decayed; well-cooked rotten; decayed; well-cooked; mushy; broken; bad; to decay; completely	free; unrestrained; inundate
trad. (爛漫)		爛	漫
simp. (烂漫)		烂	漫
alternative forms		爛熳／烂熳 爛縵／烂缦

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lànmàn

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄢˋ ㄇㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): laan⁶ maan⁶
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): lān-bān

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lànmàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄢˋ ㄇㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lànmàn
    • Wade–Giles: lan⁴-man⁴
    • Yale: làn-màn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lannmann
    • Palladius: ланьмань (lanʹmanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /län⁵¹⁻⁵³ män⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: laan⁶ maan⁶
    • Yale: laahn maahn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: laan⁶ maan⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: lan⁶ man⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /laːn²² maːn²²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lān-bān
    • Tâi-lô: lān-bān
    • Phofsit Daibuun: laxnban
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /lan⁴¹⁻²² ban⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /lan²²⁻²¹ ban²²/

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) 爛漫

1. bright-coloured
2. natural; unaffected
3. scattered; disordered

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
爛	漫
らん Hyōgai	まん Grade: S
on'yomi

Alternative forms

• 爛熳(らんまん) (ranman)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɾã̠mːã̠ɴ]

Adjective

爛(らん)漫(まん) • (ranman) 

1. the way in which many flowers are in bloom
   • 1928: Sakura no ki no shita ni wa (Kajii Motojirō)

     お前(まえ)、この爛(らん)漫(まん)と咲(さ)き乱(みだ)れてゐる桜(さくら)の樹(き)の下(した)へ、一(ひと)つ一(ひと)つ屍(し)体(たい)が埋(う)まつてゐると想像(さうざう)して見(み)るがいい。

     Omae, kono ranman to sakimidareteiru sakura no ki no shita e, hitotsu hitotsu shitai ga umatteiru to sōzō shite miru ga ii.

     (please add an English translation of this example)

2. the way in which light sparkles

See also

• 天真爛漫(てんしんらんまん) (tenshin ranman)