兰
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orchid (蘭花|兰花 Cymbidium goeringii); fragrant thoroughwort (蘭草|兰草 Eupatorium fortunei); lily magnolia (木蘭|木兰)
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 八 +3
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 蘭
- Common rank
- #191
- Unicode
- U+5170
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
orchid · Heisig RSH #533
羊 sheep
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 兰
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 兰山区 | Lanshan, a district of Linyi City 臨沂市|临沂市[Lin2 yi2 Shi4], Shandong | |
| 法兰西斯 | Francis (name) | |
| 海尔德兰 | Gelderland, province of the Netherlands | |
| 白兰地 | (loanword) brandy | |
| 兰西县 | Lanxi, a county in Suihua City 綏化市|绥化市[Sui2 hua4 Shi4], Heilongjiang | |
| 法兰德斯 | Flanders, region (state) of Belgium 比利時|比利时[Bi3 li4 shi2] | |
| 马兰花 | iris; Iris tectorum | |
| 兰州大学 | Lanzhou University | |
| 亚特兰大 | Atlanta | |
| 兰开斯特 | Lancaster | |
| 法兰斯 | France (phonetic transliteration) | |
| 拉法兰 | Raffarin, prime minister of France under Jacques Chirac | |
| 西兰花 | broccoli | |
| 法兰克 | the Franks (Germanic people who arrived in Europe from 600 AD and took over France) | |
| 马里兰 | Maryland, US state | |
| 法兰西 | France | |
| 马兰基地 | Malan military base and atomic test site in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture 巴音郭楞蒙古… | |
| 兰山 | see 蘭山區|兰山区[Lan2 shan1 Qu1] | |
| 东兰县 | Donglan, a county in Hechi City 河池市[He2 chi2 Shi4], Guangxi | |
| 兰学 | Dutch studies (study of Europe and the world in premodern Japan) |
Sound family
These characters use 兰 as their sound component — compare how they read.