# 闌

| 闌 | U+95CC, &#38348; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-95CC |
| ← 闋 [U+95CB] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 闍 → [U+95CD] |

## Translingual

| Traditional | 闌 |
| Shinjitai (extended) | 䦨 |
| Simplified | 阑 |

### Han character

闌 (Kangxi radical 169, 門+9, 17 strokes, cangjie input 日弓木田火 (ANDWF), four-corner 7790$_6$, composition ⿵門柬)

#### Derived characters

* 㘓(𪢌), 孄(𫝮), 㦨, 攔(拦), 瀾(澜), 斕(斓), 欄(栏), 爛(烂), 瓓(𬎑), 襴(襕), 𥽭(𬖺), 讕(谰), 躝(𨅬), 鑭(镧), 蘭(𬞕/兰), 籣(𮆏)

#### Related characters

* 阑 (Simplified Chinese)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1339, character 4
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 41433
* Dae Jaweon: page 1844, character 8
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4307, character 11
* Unihan data for U+95CC

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 闌 :
| Western Zhou | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Bronze inscriptions | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
| | 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 | *ɡ·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／形声, OC *ɡ·raːn) : semantic 門 (“door”) + phonetic 柬 (OC *kreːnʔ).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): lán (lan$^2$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄌㄢˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): laan$^4$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): lân
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: lán
*** Zhuyin: ㄌㄢˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: lán
*** Wade–Giles: lan$^2$
*** Yale: lán
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lan
*** Palladius: лань (lanʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /län³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: laan$^4$
*** Yale: làahn
*** Cantonese Pinyin: laan$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: lan$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /laːn²¹/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lân
*** Tâi-lô: lân
*** Phofsit Daibuun: laan
*** IPA (Xiamen): /lan²⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /lan²⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /lan¹³/
*** IPA (Taipei): /lan²⁴/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /lan²³/
* Middle Chinese: lan
Rime :
| Character | 闌 |
| 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 |
| Baxter | lan |
| 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 |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | laan$^4$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[r]ˤan/
    (Zhengzhang): /*ɡ·raːn/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 闌 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | lán |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ lan › |
| Old Chinese | /*[r]ˁan/ |
| English | railing |
| 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 | 闌 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 6124 |
| Phonetic component | 柬 |
| Rime group | 元 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 蘭 |
| Old Chinese | /*ɡ·raːn/ |

### Definitions

闌
* door screen
* railing; fence
* to exhaust; to use up; to end; to finish; to wane
* late (in time)

### Compounds

* 三框闌兒／三框阑儿
* 井闌／井阑
* 光闌／光阑
* 勾闌／勾阑
* 回闌／回阑
* 夜闌／夜阑 (yèlán)
* 夜闌人靜／夜阑人静 (yèlánrénjìng)
* 夜靜更闌／夜静更阑
* 意興闌珊／意兴阑珊 (yìxìnglánshān)
* 憑闌／凭阑
* 春事闌珊／春事阑珊
* 春意闌珊／春意阑珊 (chūnyìlánshān)
* 更闌／更阑
* 更闌人靜／更阑人静
* 月闌／月阑
* 歲闌／岁阑
* 漏盡更闌／漏尽更阑
* 燈火闌珊／灯火阑珊 (dēnghuǒlánshān)
* 興盡意闌／兴尽意阑
* 酒闌／酒阑
* 門闌藹瑞／门阑蔼瑞
* 闌入／阑入 (lánrù)
* 闌單／阑单
* 闌尾／阑尾 (lánwěi)
* 闌尾炎／阑尾炎 (lánwěiyán)
* 闌干 (lángān)
* 闌暑／阑暑
* 闌珊／阑珊 (lánshān)
* 闌街／阑街
* 闌門／阑门
* 闌風／阑风 (lánfēng)

## Japanese

| Shinjitai (extended) | 䦨 |
| Kyūjitai | 闌 |

### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 䦨)
* rise high
* be well along

#### Readings

* Go-on: らん (ran)
* Kan-on: らん (ran)
* Kun: たける (takeru, 闌ける)、てすり (tesuri)、さえぎる (saegiru)、たけなわ (takenawa)
* Nanori: たけし (takeshi)

### Etymology

* Kanji in this term
* 闌
* たけなわ Hyōgai
* kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 闌 – see the following entry. :
| 【たけなわ】 | [noun] heights; full swing Alternative spelling 酣 |
(This term, 闌, is an alternative spelling of the above term.) :

## Korean
### Hanja

闌 • (ran>nan) (hangeul 란>난, revised ran>nan, McCune–Reischauer ran>nan, Yale lan>nan)
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

闌: Hán Nôm readings: làn, lan
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