lán

door screen

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
门 meaning component

  Meaning component

mén

  

door

柬 sound component

  Sound component

jiǎn

  

letter

Evolution

阑 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
阑 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
阑 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
阑 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

lán

door screen; railing fence; railing; balustrade; door-screen; exhausted; late

Most common words with 阑
Freq.
Word
Meaning

阑尾

appendix

阑尾炎

appendicitis (medicine)

railing

阑珊

waning

夜阑

late at night

Component uses

Sound component in 4 characters (0 verified)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[r]ˤan

lan

lán

railing


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 0.8970% of movies

3193rd most common character in movies

3716th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Traditional

Unicode

U+9611


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