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: 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, OC *ɡ·raːn) : semantic 門 (“door”) + phonetic 柬 (OC *kreːnʔ).

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): lán (lan²)
(Zhuyin): ㄌㄢˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): laan⁴
Min Nan (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)⁺
  - Jyutping: laan⁴
  - Yale: làahn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: laan⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: lan⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /laːn²¹/
Min Nan
- (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: /lɑn/

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
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

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／阑干 (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)

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 Hyōgaiji
kun’yomi

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

【たけなわ】

[noun] heights; full swing

Alternative spellings
酣, 闌

(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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