邋遢 (lā ta) — unkempt, slovenly, messy
Definition
Describes a person's appearance, clothes, or living space as messy and careless — untidy hair, wrinkled clothes, a disordered room. Slangy and colloquial, stronger than just 乱.
adjective
unkemptslovenlymessy
Examples
- 邋遢，。Tā jīn tiān chuān dé hěn lā ta, tóu fa yě luàn zāo zāo de.He's dressed very slovenly today, and his hair is a mess.
- 邋遢，。Nǐ de fáng jiān tài lā ta le, gāi shōu shi yí xià.Your room is too messy; you should tidy it up.
- ，邋遢。Tā píng shí hěn zhù yì xíng xiàng, cóng bú ràng zì jǐ xiǎn de lā ta.She usually pays attention to her image and never lets herself look unkempt.
Origin
Single-morpheme word构词法gòucífǎ
联绵liánmiánBound pair
Two characters that only ever appear together, spelling one ancient two-syllable word.
邋lā
遢tā
The characters 邋 and 遢 carry no meaning of their own here; together they describe an unkempt appearance.
Sound-only characters
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