懒 lǎn
- Strokes
- 16
- Radical
- 忄 — heart
- Made of
- 忄 heart 赖 to depend on, to rely on
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
懒得
lǎnde
not feel like doing; cannot be bothered to
Characters in this word
得 dé
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 彳 — to step with the left foot
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 我已经解释过三遍了，他仍然懒得核对原始数据，只凭直觉下结论。 Wǒ yǐjīng jiěshì guò sān biàn le, tā réngrán lǎnde héduì yuánshǐ shùjù, zhǐ píng zhíjué xià jiélùn. I had already explained it three times, yet he still could not be bothered to check the raw data and drew conclusions by intuition alone.
- 周末我只想睡觉，懒得出门。 Zhōumò wǒ zhǐ xiǎng shuìjiào, lǎnde chūmén. At the weekend I just want to sleep and can't be bothered to go out.
- 天太热了，我懒得做饭，点了外卖。 Tiān tài rè le, wǒ lǎnde zuòfàn, diǎn le wàimài. It was too hot and I couldn't be bothered to cook, so I ordered takeaway.
Related words
- 懒惰 lǎnduò lazy; idle; indolent
- 偷懒 tōulǎn slack off; shirk work
- 得到 dédào to get, to obtain
- 记得 jìde to remember
- 觉得 juéde to think, to feel
- 得 dé to get; to receive
- 得出 déchū to reach a conclusion
- 得 de so; to the extent (after a verb)
- 懂得 dǒngde to understand; to know about
- 取得 qǔdé to achieve; to obtain
- 不得不 bùdébù to have to
- 得分 défēn to score points