luán
name of tree
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 欒
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
surname Luan | ||
Luanchuan county in Luoyang 洛陽|洛阳, Henan | ||
Luancheng county in Shijiazhuang 石家莊|石家庄[Shíjiāzhuāng], Hebei | ||
Luanchuan county in Luoyang 洛陽|洛阳, Henan | ||
Luancheng county in Shijiazhuang 石家莊|石家庄[Shíjiāzhuāng], Hebei |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[m]ə.rˤon | lwan | luán | corners of the rim of an oval bell |
*[r]ˤo[n] | lwan | luán | emaciated, worn |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4377th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 23 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+6B12 |
Shuowen | “欒,木,似欄。从木,聲。” |
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