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Keyword
railing
  • screen door
  • fence
Frequency
#3916
Strokes
12
Readings
lán
Mnemonic
门 (door) gives the meaning and 柬 the sound.
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in characters
Used in vocabulary
阑lán
railing; balustrade; door-screen; exhausted; late
阑尾lánwěi
appendix; vermiform appendix (anatomy)
阑尾炎lánwěiyán
appendicitis (medicine)
阑珊lánshān
coming to an end; waning
夜阑yèlán
late at night; in the dead of night
阑干lángān
(literary) crisscross; uneven; disorderly; rim of the eye
夜阑人静yèlánrénjìng
the still of the night (idiom); late at night