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闌

lán

door screen

Phonosemantic compound. 門 represents the meaning and 柬 represents the sound.

Components
門 meaning component

門  Meaning component

mén

  

door

柬 sound component

柬  Sound component

jiǎn

  

letter

Evolution

闌 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
闌 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
闌 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
闌 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

阑 (闌) 

lán

door screen; railing fence; railing; balustrade; door-screen; exhausted; late

Most common words with 闌
Freq.
Word
Meaning

阑尾

appendix

阑尾炎

appendicitis (medicine)

阑

railing

阑珊

waning

夜阑

late at night

Component uses

Sound component in 8 characters (2 verified)

蘭 爛 攔 欄 瀾 斕 鑭 讕

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[r]ˤan

lan

lán

railing


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 0.8970% of movies

3193rd most common character in movies

3716th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Simplified

阑

Unicode

U+95CC

Shuowen

“闌，門遮也。从門，柬聲。”


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