爛

See also: 烂

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): 火 (“fire”) + 闌

Han character

爛 (radical 86 火+17, 21 strokes, cangjie input 火日弓田 (FANW), four-corner 9782₀)

1. rotten, spoiled, decayed

References

• KangXi: page 687, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19604
• Dae Jaweon: page 1099, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2249, character 2
• Unihan data for U+721B

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Cantonese

Hanzi

爛 (simplified 烂, Yale laan6)

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Japanese

Kanji

爛

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: らん (ran)
• Kun: ただれる (tadareru)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

爛 (simplified 烂, Pinyin jiào (jiao4), làn (lan4), Wade-Giles chiao⁴, lan⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

爛 (lạn, láng, rạn)

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