luán

fabulous bird

Components
䜌 meaning component

  Meaning component

luán

  

tie together

bird

鳥 sound component

  Sound component

niǎodiǎo

  

bird

Evolution

鸞 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
鸞 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鸞 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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luán

fabulous bird; mythical bird related to phoenix

Most common words with 鸞
Freq.
Word
Meaning

mythical bird related to phoenix

鸾凤

luan and phoenix

颠鸾倒凤

to have sexual intercourse

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[r]ˤon

lwan

luán

phoenix


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3912th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

30

Simplified

Unicode

U+9E1E

Shuowen

“鸞,亦神靈之精也。赤色,五采,雞形,鳴中五音,頌聲作則至。从鳥,聲。周成王時氐羌獻鸞鳥。”


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