📖 Meaning
Describes children as innocent, lively, and adorable, free from pretense or hypocrisy. It conveys a natural, unspoiled purity of character. A variant form of the more common 天真烂漫.
📜 Origin Story
This idiom is a variant of the more widely used 天真烂漫. The component 烂漫 originally described flowers blooming brilliantly and naturally in classical Chinese poetry. Combined with 天真, meaning innocence, it came to characterize the unpretentious purity of children. The variant 烂熳 substitutes a different character for 漫 but carries identical meaning.
💡 Example Usage
幼儿园里的孩子们天真烂熳，玩得不亦乐乎。
The children in the kindergarten are innocent and lively, having a wonderful time playing.
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🔤 Quick Facts
- Chinese: 天真烂熳
- Pinyin: tiān zhēn làn màn
- Literal Translation: heaven, true, brilliant, natural
- Category: Quality
- Characters: 4