乱

音読おんよみ: ラン・ロン

訓読くんよみ: みだれる・みだ

画数かくすう: 7

部首ぶしゅ: おつ(乙)

Meaning

Disorder / Chaos / Rebellion

Conjugation
Tap for 乱れる (be disturbed) Tap for 乱す (disturb)
  • 混乱こんらん — confusion / chaos
  • 乱暴らんぼう — violence / recklessness
  • 内乱ないらん — civil war
  • 反乱はんらん — rebellion / revolt
  • 戦乱せんらん — wartime turmoil
  • 騒乱そうらん — riot / uprising

乱 uses the radical and historically evokes tangled threads, symbolizing disorder. It often appears in political, social, and emotional contexts to express turmoil or loss of control. The old form らん visualizes that “tangle” even more explicitly.

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