soft; mushy / well-cooked and soft / to rot; to decompose / rotten / worn out / chaotic; messy / utterly; thoroughly / crappy; bad

= + : Sir Lancelot (l) is taking a bath in the anthill's bathroom (an4). The bathtub is sitting on a fire (火), so the water is really hot. Sir Lancelot has added a few orchids (兰) to the bath, but because the water is so warm, they're all mushy and rotten (烂).

爛 character breakdown

fire / urgent / ammunition / fiery or flaming / internal heat (Chinese medicine) / hot (popular) / classifier for military units (old) / Kangxi radical 86

= + : Helga Horse (hu) and Neanderthal Man (人) are starting a fire (火) in the observatory's living room (o3) with two large petals (丶).
railing / balustrade / door-screen / exhausted / late

Characters with 爛 as component

爛 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 爛

(Tw) (slang) to be ticked off by (sb or sth); to be pissed at (sb or sth); to be in a foul mood; down in the dumps (from Taiwanese 揬𡳞, Tai-lo pr. [tu̍h-lān])
(of food etc) soft / pulpy / (Tw) (of a person) lacking drive / shiftless / lazy
rotting; decaying
rotting / decaying
lit. stale grain, overcooked sesame (idiom); fig. the same boring old gossip

Sentences with 爛

爛 currently does not appear in any sentence.