luán
bells hung on horse
Phonosemantic compound. 金 represents the meaning and 䜌 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Bronze script
Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 鑾
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
imperial | ||
throne room | ||
return of the emperor | ||
Cape Eluanpi or Eluanbi, southernmost point of Taiwan Island |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[m]ə.rˤon | lwan | luán | harness bells |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4211th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 27 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+947E |
Shuowen | “鑾,人君乘車,四馬鑣,八鑾鈴,象鸞鳥聲,和則敬也,从金,从鸞省。” |
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