鑾

See also: 銮

鑾 U+947E, 鑾 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-947E ← 鑽 [U+947D] CJK Unified Ideographs 鑿 → [U+947F]

Translingual

Han character

鑾 (Kangxi radical 167, 金+19, 27 strokes, cangjie input 女火金 (VFC), four-corner 2210₉, composition ⿱龻金)

1. bells hung on a horse

Derived characters

• 𬉲, 𨰼

Descendants

• 銮 (Simplified Chinese)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1327, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41083
• Dae Jaweon: page 1828, character 32
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4277, character 1
• Unihan data for U+947E

Chinese

trad.		鑾
simp.		銮
alternative forms		鸞／鸾

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 鑾
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (䜌) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
蠻	*mroːn
矕	*mroːnʔ
變	*prons
鸞	*b·roːn
巒	*b·roːn
灤	*b·roːn
欒	*b·roːn
鑾	*b·roːn
臠	*b·roːn, *b·ronʔ
羉	*b·roːn
䜌	*b·roːn, *b·ron, *b·rons
灓	*b·roːn, *b·roːns, *b·rons
圝	*b·roːn
曫	*b·roːn
孿	*smroːns, *smrons
彎	*qroːn
灣	*qroːn
攣	*b·ron
孌	*b·ronʔ, *b·rons
戀	*b·rons
㪻	*pʰlons, *klons

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): luán (luan²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄨㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lyun⁴
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): làn

  (Hailu, HRS): lan

  (Meixian, Guangdong): lan²

• Eastern Min (BUC): luàng
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): luang² / luong²
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): loân

  (Teochew, Peng'im): luang⁵ / luêng⁵

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶loe

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: luán
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄨㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: luán
    • Wade–Giles: luan²
    • Yale: lwán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: luan
    • Palladius: луань (luanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lu̯än³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: lyun⁴
    • Yale: lyùhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lyn⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: lün⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lyːn²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: làn
    • Hakka Romanization System: lan^ˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: lan²
    • Sinological IPA: /lan¹¹/
  • (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
    • Hakka Romanization System: lan
    • Sinological IPA: /lan⁵⁵/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: lan²
    • Sinological IPA: /lan¹¹/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: luàng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /l̃uaŋ⁵³/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: luang²
    • Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: luáng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /luaŋ¹³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: luong²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /luoŋ²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: loân
    • Tâi-lô: luân
    • Phofsit Daibuun: loaan
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /luan²⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /luan²⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /luan¹³/
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /luan²⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /luan²³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: luang⁵ / luêng⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: luâng / luêng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /luaŋ⁵⁵/, /lueŋ⁵⁵/

Note:

• luang5 - Shantou;
• luêng5 - Chaozhou.

• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶loe
    • MiniDict: loe^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³loe
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /lø²³/

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• Middle Chinese: lwan

Rime
Character	鑾
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	桓 (62)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	落官切
Baxter	lwan
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/luɑn/
Pan Wuyun	/lʷɑn/
Shao Rongfen	/luɑn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/lwan/
Li Rong	/luɑn/
Wang Li	/luɑn/
Bernhard Karlgren	/luɑn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	luán
Expected Cantonese Reflex	lyun4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[m]ə.rˤon/

  (Zhengzhang): /*b·roːn/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	鑾
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	luán
Middle Chinese	‹ lwan ›
Old Chinese	/*[m]ə.rˁon/
English	harness bells
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	鑾
Reading #	1/1
No.	8617
Phonetic component	
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	鑾
Old Chinese	/*b·roːn/
Notes	金文作

Definitions

鑾

1. a bell attached to a carriage
2. the carriage of the emperor

Descendants

• → Thai: พรวน (pruuan, “bell tied around the neck of an animal”)

Compounds

• 半朝鑾駕 / 半朝銮驾
• 回鑾 / 回銮
• 打鑾駕 / 打銮驾
• 裝鑾 / 装銮
• 金鑾 / 金銮
• 金鑾殿 / 金銮殿 (jīnluándiàn)
• 鑾輿 / 銮舆 (luányú)
• 鑾鈴 / 銮铃 (luánlíng)
• 鑾駕 / 銮驾 (luánjià)
• 隨鑾 / 随銮
• 鳴鑾 / 鸣銮
• 鵝鑾鼻 / 鹅銮鼻 (Éluánbí)

Japanese

Kanji

鑾

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. bell(s) attached to an emperor's carriage
2. emperor's carriage
3. emperor

Readings

• Go-on: らん (ran)
• Kan-on: らん (ran)
• Kun: すず (suzu, 鑾)

References

• “^▲鑾”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025

Korean

Hanja

鑾 • (ran>nan) (hangeul 란>난, revised ran>nan, McCune–Reischauer ran>nan, Yale lan>nan)

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Vietnamese

Han character

鑾: Hán Nôm readings: loan

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