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Kanji Detail for 濫 - "overflow, excessive, abuse"
濫
- Meaning
濫 means "overflow, excessive, abuse."
Overflow - To flood; to spill over.
Excessive - Going beyond proper limits.
Indiscriminate - Without careful judgment.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
excessive; overflow; spread out
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
flood, overflow; excessive
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
overflowing; excessive; indiscriminate
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
to flood, to overflow; excessive
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
Water overflowing and spreading. As in 泛濫 (flooding). | Excessive. As in 濫刑 (excessive punishment), 濫賞 (excessive rewards), meaning punishment and rewards exceeding proper bounds. | Lacking self-restraint. (Analects) "When a petty person is in dire straits, he becomes unbridled." Being indiscriminate is also called 濫. As in 濫交 (indiscriminate socializing). | Empty words. Mediocre and inferior writing is called 膚詞濫調 (superficial words and trite phrases). | 濫觴. The beginning of something. Things often grow from small to large, like the source of a river being just enough to float a wine cup (觴), emphasizing how small it is. The phrase originates from (Family Sayings of Confucius).
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