Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Textiles, Plants & Food

蘭: orchid, Holland

JLPT N119 strokesName kanji (jinmeiyō)Your ink: 白 Not met

艹 carries the meaning · 闌 is drawn in

19 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

ランran · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 蘭らんorchid
  • 蘭学らんがくrangaku
  • 蘭塔らんとうoval tombstone

Also read ラ, 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

“Grass growing on top! Like a green crown upon the earth, this radical sits above kanji related to flowers, herbs, and vegetation.”
More in the 艹 grass story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
艹

Also built on grass (艹)

All 74
闌

Also built on 闌

Also read ラン

7 kanji share this on'yomi

Also read ラ

3 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

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

Japan keeps the traditional form 蘭; mainland China simplifies it to 兰.

Simplified
兰 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
蘭 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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