闌

See also: 䦨 and 阑

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

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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/
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

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)