Chinese symbol for “balustrade”
阑
lán
Traditional: 闌
railing; balustrade; door-screen; exhausted
The closest CC-CEDICT match for balustrade is 阑 (lán), defined as: railing; balustrade; door-screen; exhausted; late.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “balustrade”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 槛 (檻) | jiàn | banister; balustrade |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 阑.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 阑尾 (闌尾) | lán wěi | appendix; vermiform appendix (anatomy) |
| 阑尾炎 (闌尾炎) | lán wěi yán | appendicitis (medicine) |
| 阑珊 (闌珊) | lán shān | coming to an end; waning |
| 夜阑 (夜闌) | yè lán | late at night; in the dead of night |
| 阑干 (闌干) | lán gān | (literary) crisscross; uneven |
| 夜阑人静 (夜闌人靜) | yè lán rén jìng | the still of the night (idiom); late at night |
See also: Japanese symbol for “balustrade”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.