乱 — riot, war, disorder

らん乱 riot

Grade 6 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 7 strokes

U+4E71 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #755 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #76 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

riot
war
disorder
disturb

word

らん ran On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

乱(らん) ran disorder 混(こん) 乱(らん) konran confusion 乱(らん) 暴(ぼう) ranbou violence 反(はん) 乱(らん) hanran rebellion 乱(らん) 用(よう) ranyou abuse 散(さん) 乱(らん) sanran scattering

みだ mida Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

乱(みだ) れる midareru to be disturbed

Appears in idioms

職権乱用四字熟語

post, authority, riot, use

波乱万丈四字熟語

waves, riot, ten thousand, length

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

した舌 tongue #135

おつ乙 the latter #5

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#5 乙 second