luán
fabulous bird
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 鸞
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
mythical bird related to phoenix | ||
luan and phoenix | ||
to have sexual intercourse |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[r]ˤon | lwan | luán | phoenix |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3912th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 30 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9E1E |
Shuowen | “鸞，亦神靈之精也。赤色，五采，雞形，鳴中五音，頌聲作則至。从鳥，聲。周成王時氐羌獻鸞鳥。” |
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