luán

mountain range

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
山 meaning component

  Meaning component

shān

  

mountain

䜌 sound component

  Sound component

luán

  

tie together

Evolution

巒 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
巒 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
巒 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
巒 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
巒 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

luán

mountain range; pointed mountain; mountain ranges

Most common words with 巒
Freq.
Word
Meaning

山峦

mountain range

mountain ranges

峰峦

high mountain range

层峦叠嶂

range upon range of mountains (idiom)

重峦叠嶂

range upon range of mountains (idiom)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3789th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

22

Simplified

Unicode

U+5DD2

Shuowen

“巒,山小而銳。从山,聲。”


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