闌

See also: 阑

Translingual

Han character

闌 (Kangxi radical 169, 門+9, 17 strokes, cangjie input 日弓木田火 (ANDWF), four-corner 7790₆, composition ⿵門柬)

Derived characters

• 㘓(𪢌), 孄(𫝮), 㦨, 攔(拦), 瀾(澜), 斕(斓), 欄(栏), 爛(烂), 瓓(𬎑), 襴(襕), 𥽭(𬖺), 讕(谰), 躝(𨅬), 鑭(镧), 蘭(𬞕/兰), 籣(𮆏)

Related characters

• 阑 (Simplified Chinese)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1339, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41433
• Dae Jaweon: page 1844, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4307, character 11
• Unihan data for U+95CC

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Chinese

trad.		闌
simp.		阑

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 闌
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

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	*ɡ·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／形声, OC *ɡ·raːn) : 門 (“door”) + 柬.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lán (lan²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): laan⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): lân

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lán
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lán
    • Wade–Giles: lan²
    • Yale: lán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lan
    • Palladius: лань (lanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /län³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: laan⁴
    • Yale: làahn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: laan⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: lan⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /laːn²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • 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/

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• Middle Chinese: lan

Rime
Character	闌
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	寒 (61)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	落干切
Baxter	lan
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/lɑn/
Pan Wuyun	/lɑn/
Shao Rongfen	/lɑn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/lan/
Li Rong	/lɑn/
Wang Li	/lɑn/
Bernard Karlgren	/lɑn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lán
Expected Cantonese Reflex	laan4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[r]ˤan/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡ·raːn/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	闌
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	lán
Middle Chinese	‹ lan ›
Old Chinese	/*[r]ˁan/
English	railing
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	闌
Reading #	1/1
No.	6124
Phonetic component	柬
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	蘭
Old Chinese	/*ɡ·raːn/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 闌

1. door screen
2. railing, fence
3. to exhaust, use up, end, finish
4. late (in time)

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Japanese

Kanji

闌

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. rise high
2. be well along

Readings

• Go-on: らん (ran)
• Kan-on: らん (ran)
• Kun: たける (takeru, 闌ける); てすり (tesuri); さえぎる (saegiru); たけなわ (takenawa)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 闌 (làn, lan)

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