The 闌 family
闌 · lán · ㄌㄢˊ — railing
Know 闌 and the readings of 5 more characters follow: 蘭、爛、攔、欄、斕. In traditional Chinese, most characters carry a sound component — a phonetic — and learning the phonetic once lights up its whole family. This page is that family, drawn live from the map.
The characters
One sound, many meanings: the 部首 beside each character is the other half of the pair, the part that tells them apart.
- 蘭lán · ㄌㄢˊ部首 艸 · grassorchid (蘭花|兰花 Cymbidium goeringii); fragrant thoroughwort (蘭草|兰草 Eupatorium fortunei)94%
- 爛làn · ㄌㄢˋ部首 火 · firesoft; mushy; well-cooked and soft85%
- 攔lán · ㄌㄢˊ部首 扌 提手旁 · handto block sb's path; to obstruct94%
- 欄lán · ㄌㄢˊ部首 木 · treefence; railing94%
- 斕lán · ㄌㄢˊ部首 文 · languagemulticolored94%
The percentage is our computed confidence that 闌 really signals that character’s sound — scored from how closely the readings agree and how reliably 闌 predicts the sound of every character built on it. Mean for this family: 92%.
Words this family builds
- 弗蘭克
- 法蘭克
- 破爛
- 愛爾蘭
- 英格蘭
- 蘇格蘭
- 攔住
- 法蘭
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