干欄

Chinese

		to concern; to interfere; shield to concern; to interfere; shield; stem	fence; railing; hurdle fence; railing; hurdle; column; box (as on a document)
trad. (干欄)		干	欄
simp. (干栏)		干	栏
alternative forms		干蘭 干闌
anagram		欄干

Archaeological reconstruction of neolithic stilt house in southern China

Etymology

Probably a Kra-Dai loanword; cf. Zhuang ranz (“house”) and etymologies therein. Possibilities include

• From syllable-extending a source word with initial consonant cluster (**q-ran > *k-ran > Chinese /kɑn lɑn/); furthermore, the Old Chinese 闌 (OC *ɡ·raːn) may have been a cognate rooted in the ancestral language (Lan, 2010, and references therein).
• Alternatively, the first syllable 干 may have derived from a classifier prefixed to the "house" noun-stem in an early dialect of Zhuang (Wei, 2011).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gānlán

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄢ ㄌㄢˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gānlán
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄢ ㄌㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ganlán
    • Wade–Giles: kan¹-lan²
    • Yale: gān-lán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ganlan
    • Palladius: ганьлань (ganʹlanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kän⁵⁵ län³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: kan lan

Rime
Character	干	欄
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	寒 (61)	寒 (61)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	古寒切	落干切
Baxter	kan	lan
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kɑn/	/lɑn/
Pan Wuyun	/kɑn/	/lɑn/
Shao Rongfen	/kɑn/	/lɑn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kan/	/lan/
Li Rong	/kɑn/	/lɑn/
Wang Li	/kɑn/	/lɑn/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kɑn/	/lɑn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	gān	lán
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gon1	laan4

Noun

干欄

1. stilt house