闌

See also: 阑

闌 U+95CC, 闌 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-95CC ← 闋 [U+95CB] CJK Unified Ideographs 闍 → [U+95CD]

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

Chinese

trad.		闌
simp.		阑
2nd round simp.		⿵门𫠣

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) : semantic 門 (“door”) + phonetic 柬 (OC *kreːnʔ).

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

闌

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

Compounds

• 三框闌兒／三框阑儿
• 井闌／井阑
• 光闌／光阑
• 勾闌／勾阑
• 回闌／回阑
• 夜闌／夜阑 (yèlán)
• 夜闌人靜／夜阑人静 (yèlánrénjìng)
• 夜靜更闌／夜静更阑
• 意興闌珊／意兴阑珊 (yìxìnglánshān)
• 憑闌／凭阑
• 春事闌珊／春事阑珊
• 春意闌珊／春意阑珊 (chūnyìlánshān)
• 更闌／更阑
• 更闌人靜／更阑人静
• 月闌／月阑
• 歲闌／岁阑
• 漏盡更闌／漏尽更阑
• 燈火闌珊／灯火阑珊 (dēnghuǒlánshān)
• 興盡意闌／兴尽意阑
• 酒闌／酒阑
• 門闌藹瑞／门阑蔼瑞
• 闌入／阑入 (lánrù)
• 闌單／阑单
• 闌尾／阑尾 (lánwěi)
• 闌尾炎／阑尾炎 (lánwěiyán)
• 闌干 (lángān)
• 闌暑／阑暑
• 闌珊／阑珊 (lánshān)
• 闌街／阑街
• 闌門／阑门
• 闌風／阑风 (lánfēng)

 

Japanese

Kanji

闌

(uncommon “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)
• Nanori: たけし (takeshi)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
闌
たけなわ Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 闌 – see the following entry.

【たけなわ】 [noun] heights; full swing Alternative spelling 酣

(This term, 闌, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

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

闌: Hán Nôm readings: làn, lan

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