瀾

瀾 U+703E, 瀾 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-703E ← 瀽 [U+703D] CJK Unified Ideographs 瀿 → [U+703F]

See also: 澜

Translingual

Han character

瀾 (radical 85 水+17, 20 strokes, cangjie input 水日弓田 (EANW), four-corner 3712₀, composition ⿰氵闌)

1. overflowing
2. waves, ripples

References

• KangXi: page 661, character 29
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18722
• Dae Jaweon: page 1071, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1790, character 9
• Unihan data for U+703E

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Chinese

trad.		瀾
simp.		澜

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 瀾
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (柬) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	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, *ɡ·raːns): 水 (“water”) + 闌.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lán (lan²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): laan⁴, laan⁶
• Min Nan (POJ): lân / lǎn / lān / nǒa / nōa

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: lán
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄢˊ
    • Wade-Giles: lan²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lan
    • IPA ^(key): /la̠n³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: laan⁴, laan⁶
    • Yale: làahn, laahn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: laan⁴, laan⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: lan⁴, lan⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /lɑːn²¹/, /lɑːn²²/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, mainstream Taiwanese)
    • 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: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lǎn
    • Tâi-lô: lǎn
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /lan²²/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lān
    • Tâi-lô: lān
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lan
    • IPA (Xiamen): /lan²²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /lan²²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: nǒa
    • Tâi-lô: nuǎ
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /nuã²²/
  • (Hokkien: mainstream Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: nōa
    • Tâi-lô: nuā
    • Phofsit Daibuun: noa
    • IPA (Taipei): /nuã³³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /nuã³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /nuã²²/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /nuã²²/

Note:

• lân/lǎn/lān - literary;
• nǒa/nōa - vernacular.

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• Middle Chinese: /lɑn/, /lɑn^H/▼

Rime
Character	瀾	瀾
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	來 (37)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	寒 (61)	寒 (61)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	落干切	郎旰切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/lɑn/	/lɑnH/
Pan Wuyun	/lɑn/	/lɑnH/
Shao Rongfen	/lɑn/	/lɑnH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/lan/	/lanH/
Li Rong	/lɑn/	/lɑnH/
Wang Li	/lɑn/	/lɑnH/
Bernard Karlgren	/lɑn/	/lɑnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lán	làn

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*[r]ˤanʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡ·raːn/, /*ɡ·raːns/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	瀾
Reading #	1/1
Middle Chinese	‹ lanX ›
Old Chinese	/*[r]ˤanʔ/
English	water in which rice has been washed
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	瀾	瀾
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	6122	6132
Phonetic component	柬	柬
Rime group	元	元
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	蘭	爛
Old Chinese	/*ɡ·raːn/	/*ɡ·raːns/

Definitions

瀾

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Compounds

• 力挽狂瀾／力挽狂澜 (lìwǎnkuánglán)
• 安瀾／安澜
• 層瀾／层澜
• 平地波瀾／平地波澜
• 推波助瀾／推波助澜
• 文瀾閣／文澜阁

• 歷瀾／历澜
• 汍瀾／汍澜
• 波瀾／波澜 (bōlán)
• 波瀾壯闊／波澜壮阔
• 波瀾老成／波澜老成
• 瀾汗／澜汗

• 瀾滄江／澜沧江 (Láncāng Jiāng)
• 瀾漫／澜漫
• 瀾翻／澜翻
• 狂瀾／狂澜 (kuánglán)
• 米瀾／米澜
• 蒸漚歷瀾／蒸沤历澜

References

• (Cantonese) Multi-function Chinese Character Database (漢語多功能字庫)

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Japanese

Kanji

瀾

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): らん (ran)
• Kun: なみ (nami)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

瀾 (lan)

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Readings

• Nôm: lan, tràn

References

• Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
• Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
• Vũ Văn Kính: Đại Tự Điển Chữ Nôm, NXB Văn Nghệ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999