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闌
闌
See also: 阑
Translingual
Han character
闌 (radical 169 門+9, 17 strokes, cangjie input 日弓木田火 (ANDWF), four-corner 77906, composition ⿵門柬)
Derived characters
References
- KangXi: page 1339, character 4
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41433
- Dae Jaweon: page 1844, character 8
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4307, character 11
- Unihan data for U+95CC
Chinese
| trad. | 闌 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 阑 | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 闌
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|---|---|---|
| Bronze inscriptions | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (柬) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 蘭 | *ɡ·raːn |
| 攔 | *ɡ·raːn |
| 欄 | *ɡ·raːn |
| 瀾 | *ɡ·raːn, *ɡ·raːns |
| 讕 | *ɡ·raːn, *ɡ·raːnʔ, *ɡ·raːns |
| 闌 | *ɡ·raːn |
| 韊 | *ɡ·raːn |
| 幱 | *ɡ·raːn |
| 籣 | *ɡ·raːn |
| 躝 | *ɡ·raːn |
| 爛 | *ɡ·raːns |
| 爤 | *ɡ·raːns |
| 鑭 | *ɡ·raːns |
| 糷 | *ɡ·raːns |
| 斕 | *ɡr·reːn |
| 揀 | *kreːnʔ, *ɡ·reːns |
| 柬 | *kreːnʔ |
| 暕 | *kreːnʔ |
| 諫 | *kraːns |
| 練 | *ɡ·reːns |
| 鍊 | *ɡ·reːns |
| 煉 | *ɡ·reːns |
| 楝 | *ɡ·reːns |
| 萰 | *ɡ·reːns |
| 堜 | *ɡ·reːns |
| 湅 | *ɡ·reːns |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡ·raːn) : 門 (“door”) + 柬.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄌㄢˊ
- Wade-Giles: lan2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lan
- IPA (key): /la̠n³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: laan4
- Yale: làahn
- Cantonese Pinyin: laan4
- IPA (key): /lɑːn²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lân
- Tâi-lô: lân
- Phofsit Daibuun: laan
- IPA (Xiamen): /lan²⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /lan²⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /lan¹³/
- IPA (Taipei): /lan²⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /lan²³/
- (Hokkien)
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 闌 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 來 (37) |
| Final (韻) | 寒 (61) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 落干切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/lɑn/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/lɑn/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/lɑn/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/lan/ |
| Li Rong |
/lɑn/ |
| Wang Li |
/lɑn/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/lɑn/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
lán |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 闌 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
lán |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ lan › |
| Old Chinese |
/*[r]ˤan/ |
| English | railing |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 闌 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 6124 |
| Phonetic component |
柬 |
| Rime group |
元 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
蘭 |
| Old Chinese |
/*ɡ·raːn/ |
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