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Character: 蘭
Modern (Beijing) reading: lán
Preclassic Old Chinese: rān
Classic Old Chinese: rān
Western Han Chinese: rān
Eastern Han Chinese: rān
Early Postclassic Chinese: lān
Middle Postclassic Chinese: lān
Late Postclassic Chinese: lān
Middle Chinese: lân
English meaning : orchid
Russian meaning[s]: 1) орхидея; 2) благоуханный; утонченный; вежл. Ваш; 3) сокр. г. Ланьчжоу; 4) Лань (фамилия)
Comments: In E.Zhou attested only within the compound 芄蘭 *wān-rān 'Metaplexis stauntoni' q.v. For *r- cf. Xiamen lan2, Chaozhou, Fuzhou laŋ2, Jianou luiŋ2. The meaning "orchid" is attested since Late Zhou.
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 140
Four-angle index: 3439
Karlgren code: 0185 n
Vietnamese reading: lan
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