làn
rotten
Phonosemantic compound. 火 represents the meaning and 闌 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[r]ˤan-s | lanH | làn | cooked until soft |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 36.7772% of movies
1104th most common character in movies
1754th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 21 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+721B |
Shuowen | “爤,孰也。从火,蘭聲。燗,或从閒。” |
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