làn yú

Traditional: 濫竽

滥竽 (làn yú) is a Chinese word meaning “indiscriminately included in company (without any qualification); see 濫竽充數|滥竽充数[lan4 yu2 chong1 shu4]”.

Meanings

  1. 1indiscriminately included in company (without any qualification)
  2. 2see 濫竽充數|滥竽充数[lan4 yu2 chong1 shu4]

Characters in 滥竽

滥làn · overflowing竽yú · free reed wind instrument similar to the sheng 笙[sheng1], used in ancient China

Related words

滥用to misuse滥overflowing陈词滥调cliché泛滥to overflow; to inundate; to flood泛滥variant of 氾濫|泛滥[fan4 lan4]滥杀to kill indiscriminately狂轰滥炸to bomb indiscriminately粗制滥造to churn out large quantities without regard for quality (idiom); rough and slipshod work滥竽充数lit. to play the yu 竽 mouth organ to make up numbers (idiom); fig. to make up the numbers with inferior products泛滥成灾lit. to flood (idiom)滥伐to denude下三滥riffraff

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