Chinese symbol for “waning”
阑珊
lán shān
Traditional: 闌珊
coming to an end; waning
The closest CC-CEDICT match for waning is 阑珊 (lán shān), defined as: coming to an end; waning.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 阑珊.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 阑尾 (闌尾) | lán wěi | appendix; vermiform appendix (anatomy) |
| 阑尾炎 (闌尾炎) | lán wěi yán | appendicitis (medicine) |
| 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 |
| 珊瑚 | shān hú | coral |
| 珊瑚礁 | shān hú jiāo | coral reef |
| 红珊瑚 (紅珊瑚) | hóng shān hú | red coral; precious coral (Corallium rubrum and several related species of marine coral) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “waning”.
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.