  Considering abundant experimental information of charmed mesons and the
present research status, in this work we systematically study higher radial and
orbital excitations in the charmed meson family by analyzing the mass spectrum
and calculating their two-body OZI-allowed decay behaviors. This
phenomenological analysis not only reveals underlying propertes of the newly
observed charmed states $D(2550)$, $D^*(2600)$, $D^*(2760)$, $D(2750)$,
$D_J(2580)$, $D^*_J(2650)$, $D^*_J(2760)$, $D_J(2740)$, $D_J(3000)$ and
$D^*_J(3000)$, but also provides valuable information of the charmed mesons
still missing in experiments.
