| 滥 | làn | overflowing; excessive; indiscriminate |
| 泛滥 | fàn làn | to be in flood; to overflow (the banks); to inundate; to spread unchecked |
| 滥用 | làn yòng | to abuse |
| 滥伐 | làn fá | to denude; illegal logging; forest clearance |
| 滥调 | làn diào | hackneyed talk; platitude |
| 粗制滥造 | cū zhì làn zào | to churn out large quantities without regard for quality (idiom); rough and slipshod work |
| 泛滥成灾 | fàn làn chéng zāi | flood causes disaster (idiom); fig. swamped with work |
| 宁缺毋滥 | nìng quē wú làn | better to have nothing (than substandard choice) (idiom); would prefer to go without than accept shoddy option |
| 浮滥 | fú làn | excessive; exorbitant; excessively |
| 滥交 | làn jiāo | to fall into bad company; to make acquaintances indiscriminately |
| 滥刑 | làn xíng | indiscriminate punishment |
| 滥套子 | làn tào zi | platitude; pointless talk |
| 滥杀 | làn shā | to kill indiscriminately; to massacre |
| 滥杀无辜 | làn shā wú gū | willfully slaughter the innocent (idiom) |
| 滥漫 | làn màn | arbitrary; indiscriminate |
| 滥用权力 | làn yòng quán lì | abuse of power |
| 滥用职权 | làn yòng zhí quán | abuse of power |
| 滥竽 | làn yú | indiscriminately included in company (without any qualification); see idiom 滥竽充数 |
| 滥竽充数 | làn yú chōng shù | lit. to play the yu 竽 mouth organ to make up numbers (idiom); fig. to make up the numbers with inferior products; to masquerade as having an ability; token member of a group |
| 滥骂 | làn mà | scurrilous; to scold indiscriminately |
| 滥觞 | làn shāng | lit. floating wine goblets on a stream; the origin (of some phenomenon) |
| 狂轰滥炸 | kuáng hōng làn zhà | bomb indiscriminately |
| 陈词滥调 | chén cí làn diào | cliché; commonplace; truism; stereotype |
