lán
door screen
Phonosemantic compound. 门 represents the meaning and 柬 represents the sound. Simplified form of 闌.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernMost common words with 阑
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
appendix | ||
appendicitis (medicine) | ||
railing | ||
waning | ||
late at night |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[r]ˤan | lan | lán | railing |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 0.8970% of movies
3193rd most common character in movies
3716th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+9611 |
Sources
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