月阑 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

yuèlán

moon halo

yuè, yue moon

Pictograph of the moon.

Character Evolution

Oracle form — Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC

Oracle form — Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC

Bronze form — Bronze Late Shang ~1100 BC

Bronze form — Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC

Bronze form — Bronze Early Spring and Autumn ~700 BC

Bronze form — Bronze Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC

Bronze form — Bronze Mid Warring States ~300 BC

Seal form — Seal Late Spring and Autumn ~500 BC

Seal form — Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC

Seal form — Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC

Seal form — Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Qin 221-206 BC

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Regular Modern

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Component uses

Meaning (5 of 13 verified)

期朗肖甩朦胧朔潸朐臍閒朞朧

Sound (3 of 5 verified)

外钥炙刖塍

Iconic (4)

Simplified (1)

Unknown (0 of 1 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	ngjwot	[ŋ]ʷat	moon, month

說文解字

《說文》：“月，闕也，大陰之精，象形。”

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

lán, làn door screen Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 门 represents the meaning and 柬 represents the sound. Simplified form of 闌.

Components

门 Meaning component

mén, men door

柬 Sound component

jiǎn letter

Change in sound

阑 and 柬 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Middle Chinese.
阑 lan
柬 keanX

Component uses

Sound (0 of 4 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode

door screen Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 門 represents the meaning and 柬 represents the sound.

Components

門 Meaning component

mén, men door

柬 Sound component

jiǎn letter

Change in sound

闌 and 柬 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in Middle Chinese.
闌 lan
柬 keanX

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Late Shang ~1100 BC

Bronze form — Bronze Late Shang ~1100 BC

Bronze form — Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC

Bronze form — Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC

Bronze form — Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC

Bronze form — Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Qin 221-206 BC

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Regular Modern

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Component uses

Sound (2 of 8 verified)

蘭讕攔鑭瀾欄爛斕

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	lan	[r]ˤan	railing

說文解字

《說文》：“闌，門遮也。从門，柬聲。”

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)