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蘭

蘭

See also: 兰

Translingual

Han character

蘭 (radical 140 艸+17, 23 strokes, cangjie input 廿日弓田 (TANW), four-corner 44227, composition ⿱艹闌)

Derived characters

  • 𡔔, 𢆄, 𨏼

References

  • KangXi: page 1070, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32477
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1536, character 24
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3333, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+862D

Chinese

trad. 蘭
simp. 兰

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 蘭
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (柬) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
蘭 *ɡ·raːn
攔 *ɡ·raːn
欄 *ɡ·raːn
瀾 *ɡ·raːn, *ɡ·raːns
讕 *ɡ·raːn, *ɡ·raːnʔ, *ɡ·raːns
闌 *ɡ·raːn
韊 *ɡ·raːn
幱 *ɡ·raːn
籣 *ɡ·raːn
躝 *ɡ·raːn
爛 *ɡ·raːns
爤 *ɡ·raːns
鑭 *ɡ·raːns
糷 *ɡ·raːns
斕 *ɡr·reːn
揀 *kreːnʔ, *ɡ·reːns
柬 *kreːnʔ
暕 *kreːnʔ
諫 *kraːns
練 *ɡ·reːns
鍊 *ɡ·reːns
煉 *ɡ·reːns
楝 *ɡ·reːns
萰 *ɡ·reːns
堜 *ɡ·reːns
湅 *ɡ·reːns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ɡ·raːn) : semantic 艹 ‎(“plant”) + phonetic 闌 ‎(OC *ɡ·raːn).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 蘭
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 寒 (61)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 落干切
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
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 蘭
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 lán
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ lan ›
Old
Chinese		 /*k.rˤan/
English orchid

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 蘭
Reading # 1/1
No. 6119
Phonetic
component		 柬
Rime
group		 元
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 蘭
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡ·raːn/

Definitions

蘭

  1. orchid
  2. elegant; graceful
  3. Short for 蘭州／兰州 (Lánzhōu, “Lanzhou”).
  4. A surname​.

Compounds

Japanese

Noun

Kanji in this term
蘭
あららぎ
Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

蘭 ‎(hiragana あららぎ, romaji araragi)

  1. Allium macrostemon; a type of lily
    • 931–938, Wamyō Ruijushō, book 4, page 68:
      蘭蒚 養生秘要云、蘭蒚草、蒚音隔、和名阿良々歧
    • 931–938, Wamyō Ruijushō, book 10, page 28:
      澤蘭 陶隠居云、澤蘭、佐波阿良良歧, 一云、阿加末久佐

Derived terms

Noun

Kanji in this term
蘭
ふじばかま
Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

蘭 ‎(hiragana ふじばかま, romaji fujibakama, historical hiragana ふぢばかま)

  1. Eupatorium fortunei; a type of flower of the Asteraceae family
    • 931–938, Wamyō Ruijushō, book 10, page 2:
      蘭 兼名苑云、蘭、音蘭 二字舊無、今依下總本錄存廣本亦有是音、一名薫音恵、本草 布知波加麻、新撰万葉集別用藤袴二字

See also

Proper noun

Kanji in this term
蘭
らん
Jinmeiyō
on'yomi

蘭 ‎(hiragana らん, romaji Ran)

  1. orchid; a plant of the orchid family, bearing unusually-shaped flowers of beautiful colours.
  2. A female given name
  3. Holland, Dutch

Kanji

蘭

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. orchid
  2. The Netherlands (Holland)

Readings

Compounds

  • 蘭学 (rangaku)
  • 蘭月 (rangetsu)
  • 蘭儀 (rangi)
  • 蘭言 (rangen)
  • 蘭語 (rango)
  • 蘭郁 (ran'iku)
  • 蘭時 (ranji)
  • 蘭花 (ranka)
  • 蘭科 (ranka)
  • 蘭客 (rankaku)
  • 蘭閨 (rankei)
  • 蘭肴 (rankō)
  • 蘭単 (rantan)
  • 蘭宇 (ran'u)
  • 蘭葉 (ran'yō)
  • 蘭蕕 (ran'yū)

References

Korean

Hanja

蘭 • ‎(ran, nan) (hangeul 란, 난, revised ran, nan, McCune-Reischauer ran, nan, Yale lan, nan)

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Vietnamese

Han character

蘭 (lan)

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