Character: 爛
Modern (Beijing) reading: làn
Preclassic Old Chinese: rāns
Classic Old Chinese: rānh
Western Han Chinese: rānh
Eastern Han Chinese: rānh
Early Postclassic Chinese: lā̀n
Middle Postclassic Chinese: lā̀n
Late Postclassic Chinese: lā̀n
Middle Chinese: lần
English meaning : be brilliant
Russian meaning[s]: 1) переваренный, разваренный; перезрелый; перепрелый; 2) тухлый, гнилой; 3) обжечься; 4) светлый, яркий, блестящий
Comments: A later meaning (attested since Han) is "overripe, overboiled". For *r- cf. Min forms: Xiamen nua6, Chaozhou, Fuzhou laŋ6.
Radical: 86
Four-angle index: 3436
Karlgren code: 0185 l-m
Dali Bai: na7
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