Chinese Character Wiki

拦

lán

obstruct

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 兰 represents the sound. Simplified form of 攔.

Components
扌 meaning component

扌  Meaning component

shou, shǒu

  

hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

兰 sound component

兰  Sound component

lán

  

orchid

Evolution

拦 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
拦 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

拦 (攔) 

lán

obstruct, impede, bar, hinder; to block sb's path; to obstruct; to flag down (a taxi)

Most common words with 拦
Freq.
Word
Meaning

拦

to obstruct

拦住

to stop

拦截

to intercept

阻拦

to stop

拦网

to block

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 11.6130% of movies

1918th most common character in movies

1996th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Traditional

攔

Unicode

U+62E6


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