{"path":"/entry/114048","title":"杂乱无章 / 雜亂無章 (zá luàn wú zhāng) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"杂乱无章 / 雜亂無章 (zá luàn wú zhāng): disordered and in a mess (idiom) · all mixed up and chaotic. Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":114048,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["杂乱无章"],"TRADITIONAL":["雜亂無章"]}},"phonetic":"zá luàn wú zhāng","phoneticKey":"za2 luan4 wu2 zhang1","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"disordered and in a mess ","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]},{"dim":true,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"(idiom)","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]},{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"all mixed up and chaotic","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["ADJECTIVE","IDIOM"],"frequency":28103,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":null},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[{"label":{"simplified":"disordered and in a mess (idiom)","traditional":null},"relations":[{"kind":"SYNONYM","readingId":65216,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["混乱"],"TRADITIONAL":["混亂"]}},"phonetic":"hùn luàn","gloss":{"simplified":"chaotic","traditional":null}},{"kind":"DERIVATIONALLY_RELATED","readingId":65251,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["混沌"],"TRADITIONAL":["混沌"]}},"phonetic":"hùn dùn","gloss":{"simplified":"primal chaos (original state of the universe in Chinese mythology)","traditional":null}}],"primary":true}],"origins":[{"literal":null,"content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"From a famous prose by Han Yu:","traditional":null}},{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"Where 章 (zhāng) referred to 章法 (zhāngfǎ, “structure of composition”). Nonetheless, nowadays the word is not restricted to describing writings anymore and can be applied to anything in chaos.","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"就其善鸣者，其声清以浮，其节数以急，其词淫以哀，其志弛以肆，其为言也，乱杂而无章。","traditional":"就其善鳴者，其聲清以浮，其節數以急，其詞淫以哀，其志弛以肆，其為言也，亂雜而無章。"},"phonetic":"Jiù qí shàn míng zhě, qí shēng qīng yǐ fú, qí jié shuò yǐ jí, qí cí yín yǐ āi, qí zhì chí yǐ sì, qí wéi yán yě, luànzá ér wúzhāng.","english":"Of those who did sing well, their tone was serene and light, their rhythms over-measured and strict, their diction fulsome and sentimental, their purpose loose and unfocused. Their language was confused and unstructured.","ref":"c. 802, 韓愈 (“Han Yu”),《送孟東野序》, translated by Charles Hartman"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":7,"sourceName":"HSK 3.0","name":"Levels 7-9"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}