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懒

lǎn

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 character level 4 Character Traditional 懶

懒 (lǎn) means "lazy". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 懒 means

1. lazy

Other readings

懒 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• lǎnvariant of {懒|lǎn}

Example sentences

• 他很懒。
  He is lazy.
• 我不懒。
  I'm not lazy.
• 确实我有点懒。
  I really am kind of lazy.
• 这个男生很懒。
  This boy is lazy.
• 不要那幺懒啊！
  Don't be so lazy.
• 你是一个大懒鬼。
  Nǐ shì yī gè dà lǎnguǐ.
  You are a big slacker.

Words starting with 懒

• 懒惰lǎn duòidle; lazy
• 懒得lǎn deto not feel like (doing sth); to be disinclined to
• 懒洋洋lǎn yāng yānglazily
• 懒散lǎn sǎnindolent; negligent; slack
• 懒腰lǎn yāoa stretch (of one's body)
• 懒汉lǎn hànidle fellow; lazybones
• 懒虫lǎn chóng(colloquial) lazybones
• 懒人lǎn rénlazy person
• 懒癌lǎn ái(humorous) extreme laziness; (colloquial) indolent cancer (esp. thyroid cancer)
• 懒蛋lǎn dànidler; sluggard
• 懒猫lǎn māodrowsy or slow-moving cat; (fig.) a lazybones
• 懒音lǎn yīn(linguistics) phonological reduction; lazy pronunciation; allegro speech
• 懒鬼lǎn guǐlazybones; idle bum
• 懒人包lǎn rén bāo(Taiwan) (neologism c. 2007) information presented in easily assimilable form…
• 懒骨头lǎn gǔ toulazybones; beanbag
• 懒人沙发lǎn rén shā fābeanbag
• 懒得搭理lǎn de dā lǐnot wishing to acknowledge sb; unwilling to respond
• 懒怠lǎn dàilazy
• 懒驴上磨屎尿多lǎn lǘ shàng mò shǐ niào duō(proverb) A lazy person will find many excuses to delay working…

Words containing 懒

• 偷懒tōu lǎnto goof off; to be lazy
• 慵懒yōng lǎnlanguid; indolent
• 睡懒觉shuì lǎn jiàoto sleep in
• 好吃懒做hào chī lǎn zuòhappy to partake but not prepared to do any work (idiom); all take and no give
• 树懒shù lǎnsloth (zoology)
• 疏懒shū lǎnindolent; careless
• 躲懒duǒ lǎnto shy away from work; to get by without attending duty
• 伸懒腰shēn lǎn yāoto stretch oneself (on waking or when tired etc)
• 心灰意懒xīn huī yì lǎndiscouraged; downhearted
• 惫懒bèi lǎnlistless; languid; slothful; indolent

Characters that look like 懒

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 濒bīnto approach; to border on; near
• 濑làiname of a river; rushing of water
• 镣liàofetters; leg-irons; shackles
• 螨mǎnmite
• 獭tǎotter; Taiwan pr. tà
• 镌juānto engrave (on wood or stone); to inscribe

Sounds the same

Read lǎn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 览to look at; to view; to read
• 揽to monopolize; to seize; to take into one's arms; to embrace; to fasten (with a rope etc)
• 缆cable; hawser; to moor
• 榄(bound form) olive
• 𡒄disappointed
• 漤to soak (fruits) in hot water or limewater to remove astringent taste…
• 罱a kind of tool used to dredge up fish, water plants or river mud, consisting of a net…
• 灠variant of 漤
• 㨫variant of 擥
• 孄old variant of 懒
• 孏old variant of 懒
• 擥variant of 揽

Where 懒 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Personality & character traits (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read lǎn correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.