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

= + : 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

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

= + : 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

in disorder / deranged (mentally)
lit. heart distracted, thoughts in turmoil (idiom); distraught with anxiety
disturbance; riot / to create a disturbance
to inconsiderately shout
messy / disarrayed / disheveled / chaos
dirty and disordered / in a mess
numerous and disorderly
rocks / stones / rubble / riprap
(coll.) squalid / squalor
in disorder / a complete mess
calamity and chaos / devastating disorder / great turmoil
the Yellow Turbans Peasant Uprising at the end of later Han (from 184)
Vibrio cholerae / the cholera bacterium
to put down a rebellion
Li Ji Rebellion in 657-651 BC, where concubine Li Ji tried to throne her son but was eventually defeated by Duke Wen of Jin 晉文公|晋文公[Jin4 Wen2 gong1]
late Tang peasant uprising 875-884 led by Huang Chao

Sentences with 乱

dìng
huì
yǒu
rén
xué
ta̅
 
 
tia̅n
shàng
qǐ
bù
dà
luàn