鸞

See also: 鸾

Translingual

Han character

鸞 (Kangxi radical 196, 鳥+19, 30 strokes, cangjie input 女火竹日火 (VFHAF), four-corner 2232₇, composition ⿱䜌鳥)

1. fabulous bird

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1505, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47508
• Dae Jaweon: page 2034, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4672, character 12
• Unihan data for U+9E1E

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Chinese

trad.		鸞
simp.		鸾

鸞。

Glyph origin

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

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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/

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• Middle Chinese: lwan

Rime
Character	鸞
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/
Bernard Karlgren	/luɑn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	luán
Expected Cantonese Reflex	lyun4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[r]ˤon/

  (Zhengzhang): /*b·roːn/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	鸞
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	luán
Middle Chinese	‹ lwan ›
Old Chinese	/*[r]ˁon/
English	phoenix
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	鸞
Reading #	1/1
No.	8613
Phonetic component	
Rime group	元
Rime subdivision	3
Corresponding MC rime	鑾
Old Chinese	/*b·roːn/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 鸞

1. luan (mythical bird related to the phoenix; sometimes translated as simurgh)
2. the bells at horses' bits
3. imperial

Compounds

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Kanji

鸞

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. fabulous mythical bird
2. imperial

Readings

• Go-on: らん (ran)
• Kan-on: らん (ran)

Compounds

Compounds with 鸞

• 青鸞(せいらん) (seiran)
• 辺鸞(へんらん) (henran)
• 鸞駕(らんが) (ranga)
• 鸞旗(らんき) (ranki)
• 鸞鏡(らんきょう) (rankyō); or 鸞鏡(らんけい) (rankei)
• 鸞鏡調(らんけいちょう) (rankeichō); or 鸞鏡調(らんけいじょう) (rankeijō)

• 鸞車(らんしゃ) (ransha)
• 鸞台(らんだい) (randai)
• 鸞鳥(らんちょう) (ranchō)
• 鸞刀(らんとう) (rantō)
• 鸞鳳(らんほう) (ranhō); or 鸞鳳(らんぽう) (ranpō)
• 鸞輿(らんよ) (ran'yo)

Names

Names with 鸞

• 親鸞(しんらん) (shinran)
• 善鸞(ぜんらん) (zenran)
• 曇鸞(どんらん) (donran)

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Hanja

鸞 • (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) 鸞 (loan)

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