luán

bells hung on horse

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
金 meaning component

  Meaning component

jīn

  

metal

䜌 sound component

  Sound component

luán

  

tie together

Evolution

鑾 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
鑾 Bronze script Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)

Bronze script

Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)
鑾 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鑾 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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luán

bells hung on horse; bells hung; imperial

Most common words with 鑾
Freq.
Word
Meaning

imperial

金銮殿

throne room

回銮

return of the emperor

鹅銮鼻

Cape Eluanpi or Eluanbi, southernmost point of Taiwan Island

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[m]ə.rˤon

lwan

luán

harness bells


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4211th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

27

Simplified

Unicode

U+947E

Shuowen

“鑾,人君乘車,四馬鑣,八鑾鈴,象鸞鳥聲,和則敬也,从金,从鸞省。”


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