鸞

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See also: 鵉 and 鸾
鸞 U+9E1E, 鸞
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9E1E
← 鸝
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 鸟 →
鸞 U+F920, 鸞
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F920
← 蘭
 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 嵐 →

Translingual

Traditional 鸞
Shinjitai
(extended) 		鵉
Simplified 鸾

Han character

鸞 (Kangxi radical 196, 鳥+19, 30 strokes, cangjie input 女火竹日火 (VFHAF), four-corner 22327, composition ⿱龻鳥)

  1. fabulous bird

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1505, character 1
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47508
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2034, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4672, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+9E1E

Chinese

trad. 鸞
simp. 鸾
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鸞。

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (䜌) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
蠻 *mroːn
矕 *mroːnʔ
變 *prons
鸞 *b·roːn
巒 *b·roːn
灤 *b·roːn
欒 *b·roːn
鑾 *b·roːn
臠 *b·roːn, *b·ronʔ
羉 *b·roːn
䜌 *b·roːn, *b·ron, *b·rons
灓 *b·roːn, *b·roːns, *b·rons
圝 *b·roːn
曫 *b·roːn
孿 *smroːns, *smrons
彎 *qroːn
灣 *qroːn
攣 *b·ron
孌 *b·ronʔ, *b·rons
戀 *b·rons
㪻 *pʰlons, *klons

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 鸞
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 桓 (62)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 落官切
Baxter lwan
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/luɑn/
Pan
Wuyun 		/lʷɑn/
Shao
Rongfen 		/luɑn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/lwan/
Li
Rong 		/luɑn/
Wang
Li 		/luɑn/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/luɑn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		luán
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		lyun4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 鸞
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		luán
Middle
Chinese 		‹ lwan ›
Old
Chinese 		/*ˁon/
English phoenix

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

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * 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 鸞
Reading # 1/1
No. 8613
Phonetic
component
Rime
group 		元
Rime
subdivision 		3
Corresponding
MC rime 		鑾
Old
Chinese 		/*b·roːn/

Definitions

鸞

  1. luan (mythical bird related to the fenghuang; sometimes translated as simurgh)
  2. (alt. form 鑾／銮) the bells at horses' bits
  3. imperial
  4. a surname

Compounds

Japanese

Shinjitai
(extended)

鵉

Kyūjitai

鸞

Kanji

鸞

(Hyōgai kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 鵉)

  1. fabulous mythical bird
  2. imperial

Readings

  • Go-on: らん (ran)
  • Kan-on: らん (ran)

Compounds

Compounds with 鸞
Names
Names with 鸞

Korean

Hanja

鸞 • (ran>nan) (hangeul 란>난, revised ran>nan, McCune–Reischauer ran>nan, Yale lan>nan)

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Vietnamese

Han character

鸞: Hán Nôm readings: loan

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