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Translingual

Han character

(radical 75 +17 in Chinese, 木+16 in Japanese, in Chinese 21 strokes, in Japanese 20 strokes, cangjie input 木日弓田 (DANW), four-corner 47920, composition)

References

  • KangXi: page 562, character 35
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15880
  • Dae Jaweon: page 951, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1322, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+6B04

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ɡ·raːn
*ɡ·raːn
*ɡ·raːn
*ɡ·raːn, *ɡ·raːns
*ɡ·raːn, *ɡ·raːnʔ, *ɡ·raːns
*ɡ·raːn
*ɡ·raːn
*ɡ·raːn
*ɡ·raːn
*ɡ·raːn
*ɡ·raːns
*ɡ·raːns
*ɡ·raːns
*ɡ·raːns
*ɡr·reːn
*kreːnʔ, *ɡ·reːns
*kreːnʔ
*kreːnʔ
*kraːns
*ɡ·reːns
*ɡ·reːns
*ɡ·reːns
*ɡ·reːns
*ɡ·reːns
*ɡ·reːns
*ɡ·reːns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡ·raːn) :  (wood) + .

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (37)
Final () (61)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/lɑn/
Pan
Wuyun
/lɑn/
Shao
Rongfen
/lɑn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/lan/
Li
Rong
/lɑn/
Wang
Li
/lɑn/
Bernard
Karlgren
/lɑn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
lán
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 6121
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡ·raːn/

Definitions

  1. railing, balustrade
  2. animal pen

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. handrail
  2. column
  3. blank, space

Readings

Noun

(hiragana らん, romaji ran)

  1. column in a newspaper
  2. field in a form etc.

Korean

Hanja

(ran>nan) (hangeul >)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(lan, lang, lơn, lán, ràn)

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References