欄

See also 栏

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): 木 (“wood”) + 闌

Han character

欄 (radical 75 木+17, 21 strokes, cangjie input 木日弓田 (DANW), four-corner 4792₀, composition ⿰木闌)

1. railing, balustrade
2. animal pen

References

• KangXi: page 562, character 35
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15880
• Dae Jaweon: page 951, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1322, character 9
• Unihan data for U+6B04

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Cantonese

Hanzi

欄 (simplified 栏, Yale laan4)

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Japanese

Kanji

欄 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. handrail
2. column
3. blank, space

Readings

• On: らん (ran)
• Kun: てすり (tesuri)

Noun

欄 (hiragana らん, romaji ran)

1. column in a newspaper
2. field in a form etc.

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Korean

Hanja

欄 (hangeul 란>난, revised ran>nan, McCune-Reischauer ran>nan, Yale lan>nan)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

欄 (simplified 栏, pinyin lán (lan2), Wade-Giles lan²)

Compounds

• 欄桿

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Vietnamese

Han character

欄 (lan)