lán
overflowing
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 阑 represents the sound. Simplified form of 瀾.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernMost common words with 澜
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
billows | ||
to pull strongly against a crazy tide (idiom); fig. to try hard to save a desperate crisis | ||
swelling water | ||
to encourage sth to get bigger | ||
Yang Lan (1968-), Chinese media proprietor, journalist, and talk show hostess |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
2789th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+6F9C |
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