M Mahoujin Tsukai 先輩 Joined 13 Jan 2005 Messages 145 Reaction score 5 2 Aug 2010 #1 How do you pronounce the upper kanji? All I know is that those two kanji have smething to do with 'misuse'.
How do you pronounce the upper kanji? All I know is that those two kanji have smething to do with 'misuse'.
Glenn 一切皆苦 Joined 8 Jan 2004 Messages 7,842 Reaction score 200 2 Aug 2010 #2 It's らんよう. らんよう 0 【乱用/濫用】 （名）スル みだりに用いること。 「職権を―する」 http://www.weblio.jp/content/乱用 http://ja.wiktionary.org/wiki/濫
It's らんよう. らんよう 0 【乱用/濫用】 （名）スル みだりに用いること。 「職権を―する」 http://www.weblio.jp/content/乱用 http://ja.wiktionary.org/wiki/濫
M Mahoujin Tsukai 先輩 Joined 13 Jan 2005 Messages 145 Reaction score 5 2 Aug 2010 Thread starter #3 Thanks for the info Glenn. So it's just 乱 replaced by the more complicated 濫 (maybe this kanji has a bigger meaning than 乱).
Thanks for the info Glenn. So it's just 乱 replaced by the more complicated 濫 (maybe this kanji has a bigger meaning than 乱).
Toritoribe 松葉解禁 Moderator Fifteen-year veteran Joined 22 Feb 2008 Messages 18,266 Reaction score 4,926 2 Aug 2010 #4 More accurately to say, 濫用 is the original, and the replaced version(for "easy-to-read/write") 乱用 spread after WWⅡ.
More accurately to say, 濫用 is the original, and the replaced version(for "easy-to-read/write") 乱用 spread after WWⅡ.
Glenn 一切皆苦 Joined 8 Jan 2004 Messages 7,842 Reaction score 200 3 Aug 2010 #5 I believe technically 濫 doesn't exist, because it's 常用外, so they picked a character that worked with that word and has the same reading as 濫 and re-wrote it. Well, it didn't exist for the purposes of the orthographic reformers, anyway.
I believe technically 濫 doesn't exist, because it's 常用外, so they picked a character that worked with that word and has the same reading as 濫 and re-wrote it. Well, it didn't exist for the purposes of the orthographic reformers, anyway.