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Kanji Detail for 亂 - "disorder, turmoil, reckless, govern"
亂
- Meaning
亂 means "disorder, turmoil, reckless, govern."
Disorder - To be chaotic; to disturb; loss of order.
Turmoil - War; upheaval; disturbance.
Reckless - Random; rash; without reason.
Govern - To bring under control.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
war; disorder; riot; disturb
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
confusion, state of chaos; create chaos, revolt
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
in confusion or disorder; in a confused state of mind; disorder; upheaval; riot; illicit sexual relations; to throw into disorder; to mix up; indiscriminate; random; arbitrary
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
anarchy, chaos; revolt
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
Opposite of order. Anything out of sequence and disturbed is called 亂. (Mencius) "The world has existed for a long time. Sometimes there is order, sometimes disorder." Such as disasters of floods and wild beasts, and harms of heretical doctrines and violent conduct. | War calamity. Internal military conflict is called 亂. See (Zuo Zhuan). | Confused and mixed. Without order or logic, and mutually entangled. Such as 亂絲 (tangled silk), 亂麻 (tangled hemp). | Confused; bewildered. Such as 精神瞀亂 (mentally confused). | Not following rules is called 亂. When used before action words, all have this meaning. | To destroy. Such as 壞法亂紀, meaning to destroy laws. | Licentious. Regarding behavior and character, it's called 淫; regarding teaching and customs, it's called 亂. | To govern. The ancient character for govern was originally 乿. From Han dynasty onward, it was mistakenly written as 亂. Later they merged into one character. (Analects) "I have ten ministers who bring order." Meaning ministers who govern the world. | The final chapter of music. (Analects) "The finale of Guanju." At the end of ancient rhapsodies, many used 亂 to summarize the entire piece and express its essence.
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