乱

luàn = lu + an4

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

乱 = 乚 + 舌 : It's hard for Lenny Lemur to not go crazy in the anthill's bathroom: Uncountable tongues are leaping right from the abyss to reach for Lenny Lemur, who has only a shovel to defend his heart and soul.

乱 character breakdown

乱
- 乚
- 舌
  - 千
    - 丿
    - 十
      - 一
      - 丨
  - 口

yà = y + a4

component in Chinese characters / archaic variant of 毫[hao2] / archaic variant of 乙[yi3]

Mnemonic symbol: a shovel (乚).

Remember it by imagining Maud Younger (y) digging her own grave with a shovel in the ashram's bathroom (a4).

ji̅ = ji + Ø1

used in 喇舌[la3 ji1] to transcribe the Taiwanese word for "tongue"

shé = sh + e2

tongue

舌 = 千 + 口 : Sherlock Holmes (sh) used a kilogram (千) to crush mandarins (口) on the elevator's kitchen (e2) counter. He's licking up the juice with his tongue (舌).

Characters with 乱 as component

乱 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 乱

babbling nonsense (idiom); crazy and unfounded ravings / double Dutch

careless / reckless / casually / absent-mindedly / at will / at random / any old how

in a mess / in a jumble / chaotic

disordered and in a mess (idiom); all mixed up and chaotic

to break the law and violate the rules (idiom) / misconduct

matted (of straw or hair) / unkempt / overgrown / scraggly / thatch

to talk nonsense (idiom); saying whatever comes into his head

(idiom) to lose one's head / to panic / to go to pieces

turmoil / social upheaval

(slang, jocular, neologism c. 2006, used esp. in relation to public figures) the things you and your friends get up to (misbehavior, scandals etc) leave me shaking my head

to run away in the confusion / to take advantage of the confusion to escape

confusion

chicken cholera (caused by Pasteurella multocida or P. avicida) / fowl cholera

social upheaval caused by war or famine etc

(idiom) to talk random nonsense; to say whatever comes into one's head

to indulge in flights of fancy (idiom) / to let one's imagination run wild

to concoct a cock-and-bull story (idiom) / to make things up

to talk random nonsense (idiom); to say whatever comes into one's head

to talk nonsense (idiom); saying whatever comes into his head

to talk random nonsense (idiom); to say whatever comes into one's head

Sentences with 乱

dìng

huì

yǒu

rén

xué

ta̅

tia̅n

shàng

qǐ

bù

dà

luàn

For sure others will follow his example. Heaven will be in chaos!