阑
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railing; balustrade; door-screen; exhausted; late
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 門 +9
- Structure
- Top enclosure 上包
- Traditional
- 闌
- Common rank
- #2,333
- Unicode
- U+9611
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Formation & memory
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Words with 阑
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 急性阑尾炎 | acute appendicitis (medicine) | |
| 阑尾切除术 | appendectomy (medicine) | |
| 夜阑人静 | the still of the night (idiom); late at night | |
| 阑尾炎 | appendicitis (medicine) | |
| 阑头 | lintel; architrave | |
| 阑出 | to leave impulsively; to send out (merchandise) without authorization | |
| 阑风 | continuous blowing of the wind | |
| 阑入 | to trespass; to mix; to mingle | |
| 阑干 | (literary) crisscross; uneven; disorderly; rim of the eye; variant of 欄杆|栏杆[lan2 gan1] | |
| 阑尾 | appendix; vermiform appendix (anatomy) | |
| 月阑 | the halo of the moon | |
| 夜阑 | late at night; in the dead of night | |
| 阑遗 | unclaimed articles | |
| 更阑 | deep night | |
| 雕阑 | carved railings | |
| 夜阑珊 | late at night | |
| 岁阑 | late season of a year | |
| 勾阑 | variant of 勾欄|勾栏[gou1 lan2] | |
| 阑槛 | railing; fence; banisters | |
| 阑槛 | see 闌檻|阑槛[lan2 jian4] |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 柬 — compare how they read.