Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements

欄: column, handrail

Also: blank, space

JLPT N120 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

木 carries the meaning · 闌 gives the sound

20 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

ランran · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 欄らんsection (e.g. in a newspaper); column; page
  • 本欄ほんらんthis column
  • 空欄くうらんblank column; blank space
  • 欄外らんがいmargin
  • 欄干らんかんrailing; guard rail; handrail

Also read てすり, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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成り立ち

Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Stand before a great, ancient tree and see 木! The vertical line is the sturdy trunk, the top strokes are branches reaching for the sunlight, and the bottom strokes are the roots gripping the earth.”
More in the 木 tree story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
木

Also built on tree (木)

All 124
闌

Also built on 闌

Also read ラン

7 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
欄 column · 木
vs蘭 orchid · 艹
欄 has 木 where 蘭 has 艹.
In ChineseSimplified 栏 · traditional, as in Japanese · lán

Japan keeps the traditional form 欄; mainland China simplifies it to 栏.

Simplified
栏 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
欄 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin lán most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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