闌

See also: 䦨 and 阑

闌	U+95CC, 闌 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-95CC

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[U+95CB]

CJK Unified Ideographs

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[U+95CD]

Translingual

Traditional	闌
Shinjitai (extended)	䦨
Simplified	阑

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), 幱, 㦨, 攔 (拦), 瀾 (澜), 斕 (斓), 欄 (栏), 爛 (烂), 瓓 (𬎑), 䑌, 䃹, 襴 (襕), 讕 (谰), 躝 (𨅬), 鑭 (镧), 䪍
蘭 (𬞕/兰), 籣 (𮆏)

Additional Derived Characters

𱘘, 𰖻, 𣩼, 𥌻, 𥽭 (𬖺), 𮉚, 𦧼, 𧕗, 𠓖, 𨏭, 𩽥, 𬐁

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

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/

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/
Bernhard 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

door screen
railing; fence
to exhaust; to use up; to end; to finish; to wane
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

Shinjitai (extended)	䦨
Print standard	闌

Kanji

闌

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 䦨)

rise high
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 Hyōgai
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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