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Translingual

Han character

(radical 85 +17, 20 strokes, cangjie input 水日弓田 (EANW), four-corner 37120, composition)

  1. overflowing
  2. waves, ripples

References

  • KangXi: page 661, character 29
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 18722
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1071, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1790, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+703E

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Small seal script
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, *ɡ·raːns) :  (water) + .

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (37) (37)
Final () (61) (61)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/lɑn/ /lɑnH/
Pan
Wuyun
/lɑn/ /lɑnH/
Shao
Rongfen
/lɑn/ /lɑnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/lan/ /lanH/
Li
Rong
/lɑn/ /lɑnH/
Wang
Li
/lɑn/ /lɑnH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/lɑn/ /lɑnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
lán làn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Middle
Chinese
‹ lanX ›
Old
Chinese
/*[r]ˤanʔ/
English water in which rice has been washed

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 6122 6132
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡ·raːn/ /*ɡ·raːns/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 力挽狂瀾力挽狂澜
  • 安瀾安澜
  • 層瀾层澜
  • 平地波瀾平地波澜
  • 推波助瀾推波助澜
  • 文瀾閣文澜阁
  • 歷瀾历澜
  • 汍瀾汍澜
  • 波瀾波澜 (bōlán)
  • 波瀾壯闊波澜壮阔
  • 波瀾老成波澜老成
  • 瀾汗澜汗
  • 瀾滄江澜沧江
  • 瀾漫澜漫
  • 瀾翻澜翻
  • 狂瀾狂澜 (kuánglán)
  • 米瀾米澜
  • 蒸漚歷瀾蒸沤历澜

References


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings


Korean

Hanja

(ran>nan) (hangeul >, revised ran>nan, McCune-Reischauer ran>nan, Yale lan>nan)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(lan)

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Readings

  • Nôm: lan, tràn

References

  • Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
  • Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
  • Vũ Văn Kính: Đại Tự Điển Chữ Nôm , NXB Văn Nghệ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999