腐烂 fǔlàn▶ ผุพัง; เน่าเปื่อย

Stroke order

腐烂 is written in 23 strokes across 2 characters.

• 腐 — 14 strokes
• 烂 — 9 strokes

Senses

1. to rot
2. to putrefy
3. (fig.) corrupt

Related words

• 灿烂ยอดเยี่ยม; งดงาม
• 腐朽เสื่อมโทรม
• 腐蚀การกัดกร่อน
• 腐败ทุจริต
• 烂เน่า
• 豆腐เต้าหู้

腐烂 is pronounced fǔlàn and means “ผุพัง; เน่าเปื่อย”. You will meet it in HSK 6, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 腐烂 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.