What is this kanji's pronounciation?

[Mahoujin Tsukai]

How do you pronounce the upper kanji?
All I know is that those two kanji have smething to do with 'misuse'.

 

[Glenn]

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

 

[Mahoujin Tsukai]

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]

More accurately to say, 濫用 is the original, and the replaced version(for "easy-to-read/write") 乱用 spread after WWⅡ.

 

[Glenn]

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.